Positive enset and cash crop performance. Generally surplus producing. While Appeal projects 23,200 benef., Zone claims 54,467 flood victims in Lemu and Badowacho weredas. Appeal indicates no relief needs, Zone claims 14,863 benef. No significant changes in food related human health problems reported.
Serious constraint is shortage of efficient drugs like fansidar and quinin.
Trend of beneficiary numbers follows more or less the DPPC Appeal figures. Structural deficits to be addressed include in most areas water management. Agricultural extension programmes to be expanded in most areas visited. This, together with timely onset of good belg rains, gives so far promising prospects for the current year. A general problem at zonal and wereda level is the lack of aggregated data allowing comparisons.