The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (MAPA) presented to the Council of Ministers the 2023 Report on Drought Management.
The monsoon 2023 has become active for many districts of Uttar Pradesh, which saw heavy rainfall for three consecutive days over the last weekend. While the rainfall is a shot in the arm for paddy farmers, vegetable cultivators are reporting huge losses.
There has been insufficient rainfall in India, says Samir Singh, business promoter for Indian fresh produce exporter Mersel Foods.“Sweetcorn is cultivated round the year in various states in India. In Maharashtra, where our company operates, the peak season starts in mid-August and continues until the end of April."
The torrential rains in Spain because of the DANA this week have caused heavy flooding in some points and affected the late onion harvest in the north of Ciudad Real, in Toledo, and -to a lesser extent- in Cuenca.
The Greek agricultural sector has been dealt a severe blow this year. Due to the unprecedented wildfires during the summer, followed by some massive floods, analysts are estimating that food prices will soon skyrocket.
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Thrips parvispinusis putting Almeria's pepper crops at risk. Faced with this growing threat, the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos Agrícolas (Official College of Agricultural Technical Engineers of Almeria - COITAAL) has developed a guide to identify, prevent, and control this pest that is affecting Almeria, a region that produced almost seven out of every ten peppers that Spain exported during the first five months of 2023.
As heavy rainfall continued in parts of the state on Tuesday, crop loss was reported from different parts of Uttar Pradesh. The most affected districts were Bahraich, Banda, Barabanki, Sultanpur, Gonda and Shravasti, where more than 30 mm rainfall was reported.
A meeting was held at CREA-OFA in Acireale (CT) ahead of the regional event on Huanglongbing (HLB), considering the serious threat that is looming over Sicilian citrus fruit.
A well-known orchard in Cazenovia says it lost 95% of their apple crop and will close its u-pick orchards for the season due to a May frost.“Normally we’ll get 3,000 to 4,000 bushels but this year it will be about 100 bushels and I’ll be surprised if we even get that,” said Critz Farms owner Matthew Critz.
Punjab minister for disaster management Brahm Shankar Jimpa on Tuesday said till September 11, the state government had credited Rs 48.26 crore in the bank accounts of the farmers as crop damage relief.
The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced Milk Loss Program (MLP) assistance for eligible dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed, without compensation, from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events and the consequences of those weather events that inhibited delivery or storage of milk (e.g., power outages, impassable roads, infrastructure losses, etc.) during calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
A violent earthquake struck Morocco shortly before midnight on Friday, September 8. "The most violent the region has seen in a century," says the Moroccan National Institute of Geophysics.
Table grape prices skyrocket in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan due to frost damage. The table grape market in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is facing a shock as wholesale prices for the most popular varieties have soared to unprecedented levels.
“Cyclone Gabrielle is the most significant weather event New Zealand has seen in this century. The severity and the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation,” said the NZ prime minister, Chris Hipkins earlier this year, mentioning the highest wind speed measured during the storm in February 2023, was up to 165 km/h.
“Influenced by the climate in February and March this year, the fruit-bearing rate of pomelo this year is low, resulting in more large pomelo fruits and fewer small fruits. It is estimated that the overall production reduction this year will be around 10%-15%. This also causes the starting price of this year’s pomelo to be relatively high.”
We’ve talked here in your regional news about Idalia’s impact on agriculture in the state of Florida, but I wanted to take some time to recognize today that this of course was not just impactful in the Sunshine State.