About 30 to 40% of dates and mangoes have become victims of fungi, affecting production. Reports said that growers of the dates palm had submitted complaints of the mysterious diseases hitting their crops.
The mango season continues in Côte d'Ivoire. Exporters are keeping their spirits up despite the obvious impact of the lack of rainfall. Adjoka Joel, Ivoirian mango producer & exporter, explains the situation.
Texas is looking at approximately 25 percent of a full peach crop this season. “We’re not going to have a very strong crop of Texas peaches. Mostly our early, low-chill clingstones have good settings but once we get into the freestones, it’s pretty weak,” says Jamey Vogel of Vogel Orchard.
Van Dijk Foods has had Spanish stone fruit for three weeks now. "That's when the first supply from the south of Spain arrived, and the fruit looks good. The warm Spanish weather means the stone fruit has a very high Brix value," says this Belgian importer's Henk Vlaeminck.
With more rains in store for the state, the Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday stressed on taking steps to enumerate the damaged crops due to unseasonal rains.
Unseasonal rain in India have once again highlighted the vulnerabilities of our agricultural sector.While rain is generally seen as a blessing, unseasonal rains can be a curse for farmers already reeling under the impact of low crop prices, rising input costs, and changing weather patterns.
Fast-rising fungal attacks on the world’s most important crops threaten the planet’s future food supply, scientists have said, warning that failing to tackle fungal pathogens could lead to a “global health catastrophe”.
Corn acres are expected to increase nationally this season, while planted acres in Texas are expected to decline, according to aTexas A&M AgriLife Extension Serviceexpert.
Untimely rains have caused extensive crop damage in Telangana, with harvests gathered in the fields and yields brought to market yards also inundated at several places in the state.
The Sicilian new potato season started a few weeks ago. Davide Prietto Batturi's company from Syracuse is among the businesses that specialize in this product. The area is known as "Terre Rosse" (i.e. Red Land), named after the red color of its soil, which is very fertile and well-known all over Europe.
Andra Pradesh ChiefMinister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to take all possible steps to help the farmers who have suffered crop loss due to recent unseasonal rains in the state.
In the Netherlands, 4Fruit Company received the first Spanish Galia melons on Friday. There are plenty of watermelons available, but the yellow and Piel de Sapo melon supply is still limited.
With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) having issued a three-day orange alert for rainfall for almost the whole of north India on May 1, and heavy rains predicted in several parts of the country, there are chances of crop damage in several states which may add to the woes of the farmers.
Like pretty much the entire fruit and vegetable sector, the Balkan countries were also affected by the negative impact of the war, Anneliese Vollweiler, Managing Director of Anevo Trading GmbH, tells us.
Nova Scotia grape growers are facing a potentially catastrophic loss of crops after an unseasonably warm winter followed by a sudden cold snap didn’t give plants a chance to acclimatize to wild temperature swings.
Indian farmers are greatly dependent on the vagaries of nature. Any calamity adversely affects their finances. With over 58% of the population engaged in agriculture, securing farmers’ income and insuring them against seasonal crop losses is a key priority as well as a social need.