After dealing with a shortage of pomegranates last year, the Turkish exporters seem to be faced with a similar situation for this new harvest, Esra Soyleyen, managing partner of Turkish fruit exporter Aksun, explains: “This season in some regions, we do have a pomegranate shortage of up to 30 per cent again, just as it was last year.
Pepino Mosaic Virus (PepMV) is present in many tomato-growing countries, while the relatively new Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) is also increasingly common. This creates the possibility that tomatoes can be infected by PepMV, ToBRFV, or a combination of both.
Expansions in crop farming across the globe are the biggest driving force of biodiversity loss in the wild. Now, in a new study publishing in the journalCurrent Biologyon November 6, researchers have modeled how the world’s agricultural landscape could change over the next 40 years.
Brazil's quest to have yet another bumper soybean and corn harvest is hanging in balance amid the imminent threat of El Niño, a weather pattern that typically brings wide variations in rainfall across the country.
In view of the huge loss of groundnut crop in the region, the opposition parties and farmer organisations are mounting pressure on the government to help those who incurred loss repeatedly.
Slug damage is evident in many crops this autumn. Wet weather is the primary factor and crops after oilseed rape and fields with a history of slug damage have fared worse.The fact that field conditions weren’t suitable for rolling only increased the pressure on crops.
The U.S. drought monitor says Mississippi is experiencing some of the driest conditions since 2016. Farmers in the state say they're already seeing the effects on their crops and farmland.
The drought situation, high temperatures and the decrease in the local production of vegetables have made it necessary to increase the import of fresh foodstuffs from Morocco to Malaga by ship.
The storage of thisyear's onion harvest is coming to an end and the main potato harvest has also been completed in the Freiburg area. "We were very satisfied with the early potato harvest this year.
Ukrainian grain and oilseeds crop sector losses could exceed $3.2 billion in 2023 due to the high cost of logistics as well as fuel and fertiliser price hikes, which threaten to reduce sown areas in the next and coming years, farmers unions said on Thursday.
The farmers in Haryana had suffered heavy paddy crop loss in about 4.04 lakh acre land due to waterlogging in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts following incessant rain and floods in the region.
JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla on Wednesday demanded a special package for compensation to paddy-growing farmers for damage caused to their crops due to rain and hailstorms in Jammu region.
An intense hailstorm that happened this Sunday, struck several villages of south Kashmir’s Shopian and Kulgam districts, causing significant damage to the apples that are still on the trees.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam inflicted almost US$14 billion in loss and damage on Ukraine, compounding the already disastrous impacts of Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to a new report released by the Government of Ukraine and the United Nations.
Untimely rainfall has disappointed farmers in Kailali district. The rainfall that occurred from Monday afternoon upset farmers as they were about to harvest rice.They were worried how they could harvest rice safely amidst such erratic weather event.
Their fields, which were flourishing with fresh and lively marigold blooms until a few days ago, had the flower-growing farmers in Punjab hoping for a golden harvest this festive season.