The East African region is encountering a potential food shortage following extreme weather conditions, characterized by excessive rainfall and floods. These conditions have led to fatalities, injuries, destruction of infrastructure, and significant damage to agricultural lands in areas crucial for food production.
Recent weeks have seen extreme heat affect south and south-east Asia, resulting in fatalities, educational disruptions, and agricultural damage. The Philippines and Bangladesh closed schools last month due to the heat, with health advisories issued across the region.
"Based on the data at hand, Sicily's current lemon campaign is the worst of the last few years. It was an annus horribilis. This is due to several factors," says Carmelo Micale, president of the OP Consorzio APAM in Torrenova (ME).
The State government on Monday released an amount of Rs.15.81 crore for paying input subsidy to farmers whose agriculture and horticulture crops were damaged due to heavy rains or hailstorms in 10 districts between March 16 and 21, 2024.
The South of Brazil has seen record breaking flooding with up to 78 people dead, over 100 missing and around 100,000 people displaced following ongoing heavy rain in the South of the country since last week.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Serviceeconomists project the Panhandle wildfires caused $123 million in preliminary agricultural losses, making it the costliest on record.More than 1.2 million acres burned beginning Feb. 26, making it the largest wildfire in Texas history.
In Finland, the agricultural season is experiencing delays due to a cold, wet start to the year. ProAgria, a farming consultancy, reports that spring sowing is lagging by 5–10 days across various regions.
At Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, scientists have embarked on research to enhance space farming techniques, crucial for future human settlements on Mars. Exploring intercropping as a food production strategy in Martian colonies.
The pre-monsoon heavy shower coupled with repeated hailstorms had badly impacted the tea industry here in the Barak Valley, as the Tea Association of India estimated a 50 percent crop loss.
Over 900 farmers have suffered losses to the tune of Rs 25 crore after their banana plantation in around 1,250 acres was destroyed in rains and wild winds in Chamarajanagar district on Friday.
Heeding the request of the agriculture department, the Election Commission has allowed the state government to pay compensation for crop losses due to hail storms. The crop losses occurred between March 16 and 24 in over 15,814 acres.
High temperature and scorching westerly winds have created an unsuitable climate for the growing lychee fruits in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. This has spelt doom for hundreds of lychee farmers, who were already worried over low flowering this year due to erratic weather.
Agricultural damage caused by El Niño has been estimated at P5.9 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).In a bulletin, the DA said that volume losses of farmed commodities was 255,467 metric tons (MT), with rice the most affected crop, accounting for 53.2% of the total.
A lot of the recent concern in Brazil has been the early end to wet season showers in central Brazil, which is forcing the crop to use up its limited subsoil moisture in a more accelerated fashion.
Welcome to the third in-season fruit article update for southeast Michigan for the 2024 season. Throughout the season, these updates will include information about the weather in the past week and the upcoming week, a fruit-by-fruit guide to current conditions with appropriate pest and disease updates, and other relevant observations.
Unpredictable weather patterns during the spring of 2024 are posing additional challenges for farmers in Ukraine. After an unusual period of high temperatures, a sudden drop in temperatures, some below freezing, has occurred in certain regions.