TNPSC Thervupettagam

Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission report

September 18 , 2022 802 days 488 0
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly published this report.
  • In August 2022, the year-on-year food inflation rate was about 94 per cent.
  • Production of paddy rice, the main staple food, is estimated to be 3 million mt in 2022.
  • It is the lowest since the 2017 drought-affected harvest.
  • Around 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are experiencing moderate to severe acute food insecurity.
  • The production of maize (used as animal feed) is some 40 per cent below the past 5-year average.

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