The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has announced subsidies worth €184.1 million to be available for horticultural fruit farming and viticulture until the end of 2024. This will be available for 7,000 farming companies, with fruit orchards and vineyards covering 65,000 hectares.
It was a year to forget for the Alessandri family, with a loss of 75 percent of their production. However, the Italian company, which cultivates more than 20 hectares of Angelica di Romagna in Cesena (FC), has at least understood the importance of its product on the wholesale markets.
On Monday morning as a section of residents in the low-lying areas close to the Tamirabharani River like Karuppanthurai, Kailasapuram, Meenakshipuram etc. hesitated to leave their homes for the relief camps, a team of officials persuaded them to follow the instructions after explaining to them about the impending danger.
Days after the experts from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) had cautioned farmers against the late blight disease attack on potato crop, the worst fears of the potato farmers have come true.
They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them,wild pigs(Sus scrofa) are one of themost damaging invasive speciesin North America. They cause millions of dollars in crop damage yearly and harbor dozens of pathogens that threaten humans and pets, as well as meat production systems.
Brazil's drought is causing farmers there to delay fertilizer purchases for their upcoming corn-planting season, denting sales for global fertilizer suppliers in the world's top corn-exporting country, executives said.
AMID growing concerns over the impact of El Niño on agriculture, stakeholders in the sector have appealed to Government for a 31 percent increase in budgetary allocation from the current $4, 3 trillion to $5, 6 trillion to cushion them from challenges bedevilling their operations.
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You may not remember the tornado that swept through western Mississippi on the night of Friday, March 24, but Eldridge Walker does.Walker, who is both the mayor and the funeral director of the town of Rolling Fork, said it’s still hard to fathom the destruction it caused in his town.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said crops on 9.75 lakh hectares were damaged due to unseasonal rains in the state as per primary estimates and announced financial assistance of Rs 2,000 crore for affected farmers.
Responding to a call attention motion in the Vidhan Sabha today, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala lauded the Haryana Agriculture Department for its prompt response to 24 distress calls from farmers and the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in the state.
To help them recover from the damage, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced that the state’s Natural Disaster Recovery (NDR) Program for Agriculture is providing $20 million in assistance to 347 farmers in western and central Massachusetts who experienced significant crop losses due to the three weather events.
Several farmers of Sanaur in Patiala district have claimed that their tomato and potato crops have been damaged by blight disease, triggered by bad weather and fog.Officials of the Horticulture Department said they had visited the villages to assess the damage and a report would be sent to the government.
Hunting will become a more effective tool forreducing crop damagein Pennsylvania if a group of bills to be introduced early next year become law.On Dec. 8, Sens. Greg Rothman and Elder Vogel circulated a co-sponsorship memorandum outlining their plan for a package of four bills designed to address crop damage caused by wildlife.
In large parts of central and northern Europe, temperatures reached distinctly negative values, while winter crops were still relatively vulnerable to frost due to the preceding warmer-than-usual conditions and late sowing.
Shallesh Koparkar, a farmer from Mouda in Nagpur, received Rs 10 as compensation for losses suffered due to unseasonal rains that hit Vidarbha last month."My two-hectare paddy field was covered under the Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme for a sum assured of one lakh," said Koparkar.
Erratic weather made 2023 a difficult year for some upstate fruit growers.“We literally thought by the end of May that the year might be a tragedy,” says Amy Machamer, co-owner ofHurd Orchards, a 120-acre farm that’s just outside the Orleans County village of Holley.