This monitoring period covers the growing and harvestingstage of winter wheat and barley. Generally the crop condition was favorablefrom January to April. Compared with the past thirteen-year average level,rainfall slightly increased (0.4%) while temperature and PAR accumulationdecreased (-1.2% and -1°C), all of which result in average crop condition.

Spatial NDVI patterns and clusters indicate that cropgrowth is generally above the recent five-year average. Only Januaryexperienced a drop in rainfall, which is agreement with other sources. In someareas such as Sibi and Khushah, crop condition was below the recent five-yearaverage from January to the middle of March.

Figure3.23. Pakistan crop condition, Jan-Apr 2014

(a) Crop condition development graph based on NDVI        (b) Maxium NDVI

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