Thecrops in Indonesia generally show poor condition between May and July. Themonitoring period covers the whole harvest of the main rice and rainy season maize,as well as the secondary rice that is sowed starting in July. Compared with therecent thirteen-year average for the same period, precipitation (RAIN) andtemperature (TEMP) were slightly above average (3% and 0.7◦C, respectively). Nevertheless,influenced by the low agroclimatic indicators at the beginning of the year (thekey crop growing season), biomass accumulation (BIOMSS) was still belowaverage. This is consistent with the NDVI profile, which shows that the averageNDVI is slightly below the five-year average. According to the NDVI clusters, cropsin Sumatra have recovered from poor growing conditions and reached averagecondition in the recent four months, which is confirmed by the maximum VCI map.Overall prospects are for an average to above average crop.             

       (a)  Cropcondition development graph based on NDVI         (b) Maximum VCI