As soon as the grape season started in Morocco, back in May, growers had anticipated a low season due to water stress and successive heat waves. Today, at the end of the campaign, they are reporting greater-than-expected damage yet a degree of commercial success.
In response to the deep freeze that devastated vineyards and orchards in late May, federal agriculture disaster designations weregranted earlier this monthto 31 affected counties throughout New York.
Pests and diseases are exacerbating crop shortages that have sent prices for goods like cocoa, olive oil and orange juice soaring. That’s set to become even more prevalent as extreme weather events multiply.
Aman farming has fallen short by a fourth of the government target by now, more than two weeks after the best time for planting the crop, which is usually sowed in July.The government had a target of growing aman, the second most important rice crop after boro, on 5.66 million hectares.
Caught between a patchy monsoon, farmers in distress and the Centre's stringent norms on declaring drought, the state government has decided to conduct a ground verification survey in 130 talks that are facing drought-like conditions to assess crop damage.
Chile’s fruit industry was yet again hit by very high rainfall of between 50 mm to 150 mm, that has caused a fresh round of flooding and a delay in mandarin and lemon harvesting.
Hundreds of farmers have lost the paddy crop that they had replanted in August. Their crop was first damaged during the floods in July.“While farmers have not been informed about the compensation for the crop that they had lost in July, there is no action visible for assessing the crop loss second time now.
University of Alberta researchers have found new clubroot strains capable of infecting canola plants bred to resist the disease.Now, a variety of management strategies are needed to counter evolving threats to Prairie crops.
The Karnataka government has started the ground-truthing exercise to evaluate whether it can declare drought in about 120 taluks of the state that are facing shortfall of rain.
First, there was a heatwave, then India saw unseasonal rainfall, and after that a delayed onset of the monsoons. Each of these phenomenon damaged crops and hurt India's farmers.
he UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is helping developing countries adopt satellite technology to make farming more climate resilient. Agricultural adaptation to new technologies is seen as crucial to minimizing crop loss and global hunger, with extreme weather eventsbecoming more intenseand frequent.
Chinese agriculture has not had an easy year.Official data shows that at least 4m hectares (40,000km2) of arable land have been affected by a sustained spate of extreme heat, typhoons and flooding – with “agricultural disasters” set to continue throughout the rest of the year.
Spanish broccoli production is currently underway in areas higher than 1,000 meters above sea level, where temperatures are usually milder during the summer. However, the heat waves are currently taking a toll on both the quality and the yields, as well as on the sowings that are taking place in lower areas for the autumn harvests.
This past weekend’s Tropical Storm Hilary, will likely cause a delay in the later harvesting of asparagus grown in Mexico's Baja, California. Avocado producers in Mexico report they expect about 20%-30% lower volumes after the effect of strong winds on the trees.
The president of Fedefruta, Jorge Valenzuela Trebilcock, is receiving reports from O'Higgins, Maule, Ñuble and Biobío on the impact of the rains and overflowing rivers in fruit production areas, just two months after the most damaging bad weather front suffered by modern fruit growing and the rural world in the last 30 years.
Peru is facing a difficult blueberry season as a result of El Niño. The climate pattern impacts production volumes and makes it difficult to project a production peak at this stage.