Theperiod from April to July 2014 covers the harvest of the second (dry season)rice, the early stage of the main (wet season) rice, and the growing period ofmaize. Compared to the five-year average, crop condition changed from belowaverage to above average in April and then turned to below average again inJune and July. The CropWatch agroclimatic and agronomic indicators shows that Cambodiaenjoyed high but favorable rainfall (as measured by RAIN), which was 43% abovethe thirteen-year average, while TEMP and RADPAR roughly kept balance with theaverage. BIOMSS shows a 13% decrease compared to average. On the contrary, the fractionof cropped arable land increased 4.7% compared to average. NDVI clusters andprofiles show that 31.9% of the agricultural areas, mainly distributed in westernCambodia in Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, and Pailin provinces, have belowaverage crop condition. VCIx ranges from 0.5 to 0.8. Well-above average cropcondition was experienced by 21.8% of the areas from April to July, with VCIxvalues greater than 1.0 in Cambodia’s Southeast, Kampot, Takeo, Prey Veng, andKampong Cham. The national VCIx of the current period is 0.85, indicating goodconditions over the whole period. Although unfavorable conditions affected the earlystages of the main rice crops, they have since benefitted from abundant precipitation,leading to a rice production level comparable with last year's crop.

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