During the monitoring period, harvesting of barley was underway while wheat was still growing. In general, crop condition is significantly below average and even worse than the last year's level since late March.

The CropWatch agroclimatic indicators show that rainfall decreased significantly (by 28%) compared with the recent 5-year average level whereas temperature and RADPAR were close to average (+0.5°C and -1%, respectively). Affected by rainfall deficit but mostly by low Nile discharge related to the East African drought, the average national maximum VCI was 0.77. According to the graph for the spatial pattern of maximum VCI, the lowest values (<0.5) occurred in south western and south eastern Nile Delta, and the northwest of the country. Crop condition became wors in all regions of Egypt from January to April, as indicated by the spatial patterns and NDVI departure profiles. About 56% of crops were below the recent 5-year average condition since early March, which were concentrated in northern and eastern Nile Delta.

As the cropped arable land fraction decreased by 2% and crop condition at national scale was poor, the output is expected to below average.