No crops are cultivated in Northeast China from January tomid-April. Wheat and maize sowing starts in late April, and only a smallproportion of arable land was actually cropped because sowing only just gotunderway. CropWatch agroclimatic indicators show air temperature and PARaccumulation kept balance with the average of the recent thirteen years, whilethe region suffered from inadequate rainfall (as much as 50% below average). Asa result, the biomass accumulation shows a 39.4% decrease.

Figure4.6. Crop condition China North-east region

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

       (e) Maximum VCI                                               (d) Cropped arable land fraction

(f) Biomass