In the north of the region, winter wheat has reached the flowering stage, while in the south early rice was at transplanting. The harvest of rapeseed was completed in early April. Overall, crop condition in the region was below the five-year average, according to the crop condition development graph based on NDVI. As for the agroclimatic indicators, rainfall (RAIN, -21%) and radiation (RADPAR, -7%) were below average, while temperature was about average (+0.4°C). As a result, the BIOMSS index dropped 6% compared to the average for this region and period, and even as much as 20% in middle and southwest Jiangsu, middle of Jiangxi and Hubei, and in the east of Hunan. Considering that the fraction of cropped arable land (CALF) was 2 percentage points below the average of recent years, crop production is anticipated to be mostly unfavorable.