Harvest of wintercrops (wheat and barley) is currently underway, while planting of summer crops(maize and rice) has started. As virtually all crops are irrigated, rainfallplays an insignificant part but slightly above average temperature during theearly months of 2014 result in an estimated biomass production increase of 9%.In spite of NDVI development being below average (and limited patches of belowaverage NDVI in the central and eastern delta at the end of February), themaximum VCI reaches a high value of 0.88, indicating satisfactory cropcondition in line with other good years of the recent past. The cropped arableland fraction also increased. Overall, CropWatch indicators point at average togood conditions that should result in the customary and population-driven increasein wheat output

a) Crop condition development graph based onNDVI           (b) Maximum VCI

(c) Spatial NDVI patterns compared to 5YA   (d) NDVI Profile