Pula, a Kenyan startup that offers insurance to small-scale farmers, aims to serve more than 100 million farmers in Africa after raising US$ 20 million in its Series B round.
Some grain rots in poorly ventilated storage. Some is eaten by pests. Some is damaged during drying or transportation before it ever reaches the market.
Alberta’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) is extending the recommended seeding dates in the province’s northeast, northwest and Peace regions for several crops for the 2026 growing season only.
A herd of elephants, including calves, wreaked havoc on an agricultural farm belonging to Yashodhara Gowda at Pallattadka in Konaje village of Kadaba taluk.
In a major relief to cotton growers of Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri, the Haryana State Grievances Redressal Committee (SGRC) has directed Kshema General Insurance Company to settle crop insurance claims worth nearly Rs 255 crore on the basis of actual average yields recorded through Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs).
Spring as a whole tilted very warm, but it was interspersed with short but sharp cold spells. Drought also continues.
As the country spends billions of rupees on agricultural imports to meet domestic demand, the government has prioritised reviving the agriculture sector through reforms and incentive programmes aimed at boosting productivity, commercialisation, and profitability.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development will issue in the coming days the final resolutions of the Operational Groups aimed at pilot innovation projects.
It’s been a stressful spring for some farmers as wet conditions and delayed seeding put the growing season behind schedule.
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to revive a weather-based crop insurance scheme has sparked fresh hope among apple growers, many of whom have been demanding a reliable protection mechanism against mounting weather-related losses.
Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Treefera, an AI-powered first-mile intelligence platform, to embed granular agricultural and nature-based asset data directly into commercial insurance underwriting workflows.
Drought reaches 1.2 million people a year – and the losses run into the hundreds of millions.
A series of fires has affected several areas across Morocco in recent days, driven by rising temperatures that have accelerated their spread.
In a major relief measure for Delhi’s farming community, the Delhi Cabinet has approved a significant increase in compensation for crop losses caused by last year’s heavy monsoon rains and waterlogging, raising the ex-gratia assistance rate to Rs 75,000 per hectare.
Sources in Poland's apple juice sector expect lower apple production in the 2026/27 season following late-April frosts in the country's main growing regions.
As droughts and erratic weather disrupt farming seasons, more Kenyan farmers are turning to crop and livestock insurance to cushion themselves against losses.