The South and Southeast Asia MPZ includes India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. In this period, the monsoon rice was harvested and some winter crops, such as wheat and maize were sown in India and Bangladesh. In the other countries, mainly rice and maize were sown as well. 

According to the CropWatch agroclimatic indicators, the RADPAR was unchanged compared with the 15YA, the temperature was slightly below the 15YA (TEMP -0.3℃). However, the accumulated precipitation was significantly above average (RAIN +13%), which led to an increase in the potential biomass production (BIOMSS +10%). CALF increased by 2% compared with the 5YA, reaching 98% and the VCIx of the MPZ was 0.93. In general, higher rainfall helped with the establishmen of the winter crops. 

According to the spatial distribution of rainfall profiles, the precipitation for 16.7% of the MPZ (northern India, northern Vietnam, Nepal, southern Myanmar and eastern Thailand)  peaked in October and that for 8.1% of the MPZ (southern India and eastern Vietnam) in November.  The precipitation in other regions was close to the average after late October. The spatial distribution temperature profiles shows that temperature fluctuated greatly in the entire MPZ.  The temperature departures in 6.2% of the MPZ fluctuated slightly above and below the average until early December, then gradually increased and reached a small peak in late January, mainly in northeast Thailand, central Laos and northern Vietnam. In other areas, the temperature slowly dropped after mid-January.

The BIOMASS depature map reveals that the potential biomass in northern and southern India was 20% higher than the average level while the potential biomass in central and eastern India, Myanmar and Thailand is estimated to be below average. The Maximum VCI shows that the index in northern, western and southern India and other scattered areas was higher than 1.0. CALF indicates that a high portion of the region was planted, with the exception of areas in northern India.

In summary, crops conditions are near the average level in India and Bangladesh, whereas for South East Asia, conditions were slightly below average.

a.Spatial distribution of rainfall profiles  b.Profiles of rainfall departure from average (mm)

c.Spatial distribution of tempreature profiles d.Profiles of temperature departure from average (mm)

e.Cropped and uncropped arable land

f.Potential biomass departure from 5YA

g.Maximum VCI

h.VHI Minimum