Peru

Potato and sorghum cycles are in the harvesting stage. Maize cycles are in the sowing stage. According to the JRC pre-operational yield forecasting system, the 2024 maize campaign registered an increase of the average national yield of around 6%. In the past month, rainfall has been normal in most croplands with some localized below average rainfall in key producing departments of San Martin and Cajamarca. Vegetation conditions are average to above average in more than 85% of the country’s cropland, suggesting favorable harvest prospects for potato and sorghum. Normal to above normal rainfall is forecast until the end of October (Copernicus C3S Multimodel) in most croplands except those in the northern part of the country where rainfall deficits have already been registered in the past month. The latest edition of the Global Report on Food presents Peru has a food crisis country in which weather extremes is one of the main drivers of the crisis (GRFC 2024).