The agricultural season in Morocco is drawing to a close, with the last summer fruit calendars, mainly table grapes, and watermelons. Drought and poor weather conditions have set the tempo for the season and caused a sharp drop in crop yields, even those for which Morocco had achieved export records until recent years.
As reported by representatives of the Latvian Association of Agricultural Cooperatives (LLKA), losses due to spring frosts are reaching approximately €10 million in the country. Representatives from the organization say that in the current situation, the fruit sector needs support from the state, because lost revenue from the harvest will have long-reaching consequences for the entire sector’s development.
Rain accompanied by high-velocity winds and hailstorm in the past few days has caused massive damage to kinnow fruit. The variation in day and night temperature is causing high dropping of the fruit in orchards.
Meteorologists from Oklahoma State University published a study which found that the risk of flash droughts, which can develop in the span of a few weeks, is set to rise in every major agriculture region around the world in the coming decades.
Untimely rainfall damaged around 500 acres of ready for harvest summer crops in Thanjavur on Monday. Farmers claimed that they had lost at least Rs 25,000 per acre.
Thunderstorms and rain over the weekend in and around Lucknow may have brought relief from heatwave but it has adversely impacted the mango farmers of the state. According to the cultivators, they have incurred a loss of roughly 20 per cent due to the unprecedented thunderstorm and rain spell at a time when mango produce was predicted to be three times better than the previous year.
As the summer harvest season begins in the Maghreb region of North Africa, severe drought has decimated the production outlook, leading to higher food prices, an increased reliance on food imports, and exacerbating the risks of political uncertainty, social unrest and economic instability throughout the region.
After a long period of drought that caused the water reserves to be significantly depleted, torrential rainfall has been recorded in recent days in the main onion producing areas of Spain, such as Murcia and Andalusia, and this has brought the harvesting of early onions to a halt.
"Given the recent rainfall and increased soil moisture over parts of the Western and Eastern Cape, sporadic heavy rainfall may enhance the possibility of flooding," notes the South African Weather Service in a press release today.
Titan Farms in Trenton is the largest peach farm on the east coast.Last week they opened their stands up sooner due to the warm weather coming in early. Now they have run into a big problem.
The Spanish Levante, especially the Region of Murcia and the Region of Valencia, have been recording abundant rainfall after months of extreme drought. In general, and despite the fact that there have been floods in some towns, the producer organizations of both regions consider these recent rains good for the field, although they won't put an end to the lack of water throughout the territory.
The first severe thunderstorms of this year caused agricultural damage in several regions of Austria on Tuesday, with hail, heavy rain and partly stormy winds. As Österreichische Hagelversicherung VVaG announced in the evening, storm cells, which moved in particular from the Waldviertel to the eastern lowlands and from the Graz region to southern Burgenland, mainly affected arable and fruit crops.
Governor Ned Lamont has submitted a request for a federal agriculture disaster declaration due to significant damage to farm crops caused by sub-freezing temperatures last week.
A new technique has been developed which can substantially reduce damage by mice to crops even during “plagues”. For as yet unknown reasons, mouse plagues only occur in China and Australiaaccording to the CSIRO.
Fruit farmers across the region are assessing damage to their crops in the wake of a hard frost May 18 that has affected many, including grape, apple and blueberry growers.Ian Modestow, co-owner of Hatfield’s Black Birch Vineyard with his wife, Michelle, estimates that the frost may have cost him 70% of his 18-to-20-acre crop this year.
Several heavy rainfall events across Southern Minnesota, as well as some adjoining areas of extreme Northern Iowa, have resulted in major delays to the completion of Spring planting in 2023.