The crop condition from April to July 2015 was generally above average in Turkey. Winter wheat harvest was completed during the monitoring period, and summer crops (maize, rice, andpotato) were sown from April on forward and are still growing. Accumulated rainfall (RAIN) and temperature (TEMP) were above average (although less so for temperature), while RADPAR was slightly below average. The agroclimaticconditions resulted in a BIOMSS decrease of 5% below the average of the previous five years. The maximum VCI (0.68) was above average, and the fraction of cropped arable land (CALF) significantly increased by 6% compared to the recent five-year average. Production of winter crops is expected to becom parable to the average of the previous five years.

Crop condition above the recent five-year average prevailed over most of Central Anatolia. In theprovince of Uşak, the surrounding areas of the Aegean region, and insouth-eastern Anatolia crop condition changed from favorable to unfavorableduring the middle of May and recovered to average in the middle of June. Poorgrowth conditions concentrated in the Eastern Anatolia and the Marmara regions over the whole monitoring period. Overall, the outcome for the winter cropseason is favorable, while the outlook for the summer crops is mixed.

Figure3.29. Turkey crop condition, April-July2015

(a)Crop condition development graph based on NDVI                              (b)Maximum VCI

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