Climate change poses a direct threat to the Peruvian blueberry industry and other countries' fruit markets globally. The industry has experienced adverse meteorological effects, leading to crop destruction, slowed production processes, and reduced yields. Intense rains, hail, and high radiation rates have impacted plants, resulting in insufficient fruit in markets and affecting consumer demand.
This winter's flagship product, large-leaf lamb's lettuce, is just getting underway at SAS Racines Carrées. The 100% organic producers' organization also cultivates shell lamb's lettuce all year round, for packaging in trays.
Heavy rain and hailstorm, which lashed Maharashtra on Sunday, has caused extensive damage to crops especially grapes and onion. Initial estimates by the state agriculture department indicate that crops in over 90,000 hectares were affected due to rain in 18 districts, mainly in North Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidharbha.
Tomato yields have been decreasing in Morocco in recent days as the weather has cooled in the Souss Massa region, according to Mustapha Aouragh, a local tomato grower.Aouragh said, "Last week marked the end of a long summer, but temperatures are a bit too low at the moment.
The Dominican Republic’s pineapple harvest has been delayed by what was described as the “largest rainfall event ever” with the tropical storm that hit and caused flooding on the island two weeks ago (17-19 November, 2023). According to producers and exporters the storm caused at least a week of delays in harvesting and exports.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday directed district authorities to carry out a preliminary survey of damage to crops in the unseasonal rains that have lashed several parts of the state in the past few days.
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“It rained again this week in the region,” while water had begun to recede at the end of last week. On Tuesday, the Pas-de-Calais department was again placed under orange alert for rain and floods. According to Vigicrues, this new rainfall is likely to cause rivers to rise again.
The current state of this year’s potato harvest in Ireland and the UK has seen significant challenges. A primary concern is the slow progress due to persistent poor weather conditions, with an estimated 20-30% of the national main crop yet to be harvested.
Floods now submerging large swathes of Paraguay's agricultural land and disruptive, heavy rain elsewhere in South America's rice growing regions are raising concerns about the development of the 2024 harvest.
Agriculture Minister Kakani Goverdhan Reddy has urged farmers not to worry in view of deficit rainfall as the State government will help them in every manner.“In all, 103 mandals in seven districts are facing drought and concrete measures have been taken to mitigate the suffering of drought-affected farmers.
Almond producer Select Harvests swung to a $114.7 million loss for the year to June as it sold smaller volumes at lower prices. However, it sought to reassure investors that performance would improve this year due to lower production in the US, the world’s-largest market, which would push prices back up.
The European Commission presented its proposal for a support measure worth €51.7 million to directly support Greek and Slovenian farmers affected by natural disasters. Coming from the agricultural reserve 2024,€43.1 million will be allocated to Greece and €8.6 million to Slovenia.
The fruit guild has already begun to estimate the possible damage that the intense rains that affected the central and southern areas of Chile last weekend will have on the 2023/2024 season.
In what’s shaping up to be a dire situation for Ireland, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has declared this year’s potato harvest “the worst in recent memory.” Sean Ryan, chair of the National Potato Committee, paints a grim picture of the season turning into a “salvage operation” due to unrelenting rainfall.
Europe’s flooded fields are delaying sugar harvesting and threatening to wipe out 15 percent of beet crops still to be collected in France, one of the region’s biggest growers of the sweetener.