Uruguay

FAO Reports Crop Damage from Drought in Uruguay
Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., June 2, 2000

Normal rains have resumed in various parts of the country following months of a severe drought which affected the main 1999/2000 cereal crops. Harvesting of maize, sorghum and paddy, were recently completed and output is provisionally estimated at extremely low levels. The important paddy crop has also declined from last year¹s well above-average level, but production is still slightly above average.