The findings are a wake-up call: European potato yields are under severe threat from climate change. Drought and heat, two of the most significant byproducts of global warming, are drastically reducing crop yields.
Rice farmers within the West Kano Irrigation Scheme are staring at a Sh50 million loss after flood water marooned rice under farms.The scheme chairman Jared Odoyo says rice crop within the 650 acres is now wasted as the region continues to receive heavy amounts of rains.
Following a cold snap in May and a wet summer in the Empire State, the USDA designated four counties in the state as natural disaster areas, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a news release. The governor’s office said the USDA bases this disaster designation on crop loss reporting to local Farm Service Agencies in the state.
According to the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA), a new heat wave in Brazil’s São Paulo state has been concerning citrus growers. Temperatures are higher than those registered in the last wave in September and are lasting longer.
Farmers in Godavari districts are salvaging the paddy crop in the fields after the cyclone storm played havoc in the region.The sun came out on Thursday and this helped farmers in drying the wet crop.
A total of 53,307 farmers suffered crop damage across 82,191 acres of land, a report submitted by the Khammam agriculture officials revealed. The damage occurred during the recent rains in the state, Joint Director of Agriculture S Vijaya Nirmala told the media on Thursday.
Untimely rainfall has added to the worries of farmers in several South Bengal districts.In various places, rains have hampered potatoes and paddy cultivation in several districts.
Cocoa farmers in Ghana are expressing a waning interest in cultivating the crop, citing the adverse effects of climate change as a primary cause.Many of these farmers claim to have limited awareness of how climate change is negatively impacting the cocoa they cultivate.
Growing up on a small rice farm in China in the 1960s, my family was keenly aware that any single adverse weather event could wipe out a year’s worth of effort.The climate and weather patterns are something a farmer feels in his bones, but changes in these patterns and the extremity of events have, in recent years, shocked rural communities.
Kansas State University researchers have been given millions in funding to study ways to increase crop yields as national reports warn of worsening agricultural conditions in the Midwest.
California's vital fruit and nut supply is confronting an amplified threat from crop-destroying insects driven by climate change, as outlined in a study by researchers from UC Merced, the University of California's climate hub, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture California Climate Hub.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service have put the spotlight on a fungus that causes one of the world’s worst wheat diseases. They found that fungus can sense light and alters its expression of genes depending on the color of the light.
Paddy crop has been damaged in more than 1.5 lakh acres in Godavari districts due to the heavy rain and floods caused by cyclone Michaung this week, it is officially estimated.The state officials estimated preliminary losses and said the final assessment would be made after the waters receded from the agriculture fields.
Louisiana’s abrupt transition this year from one of thewettest statesto one of the driest has had crippling repercussions for its farms and forests.The state’s agricultural and timber industries have suffered nearly $1.7 billion in losses from the long-running drought and recent bouts of record high temperatures.
Till the morning of November 26, the grape farmers in Nashik were expecting a bumper harvest that would help recover previous crop losses. However, nature had a different plan in store for them. In 30 minutes, the standing lush green farms turned into ruins as hailstorm, described by many as unprecedented, hit the region.
Following Cyclone Michaung’s landfall in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh, numerous regions in Telangana experienced substantial rainfall from late Tuesday through Wednesday morning.