The El Niño oceanographic phenomenon forecast to return in June 2023, following three years of La Niña. Dry weather conditions are expected in key cropping areas of Central America, Southern Africa and Far East Asia, while excessive rainfall and possible flooding are foreseen in Near East Asia and East Africa.
April 2023 has seen Spain suffer an advanced drought, with temperatures which sometimes rise to more than 40 degrees. This has led to multiple economic and agri-food losses. In France, the drought is also felt in several dozen departments with a more than delicate situation in the south of the country.
The untimely showers and downpours during summer is making an impact on the lives of farmers that are facing huge risk due to climate change. According to Maharashtra agriculture department, the state has lost 36 million hectares of crops in the last five years due to the impact of the climate crisis.
The German strawberry harvest is now slowly but surely gaining momentum in most growing regions but with a slight delay. The cold and the aggravated general conditions are putting extreme strain on strawberry cultivation in this country as well, many growers confirm.
Ten percent of the total compensation for crop damage will now go the labourers employed by farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Friday after a Cabinet meeting in Ludhiana.
When Kris Ehler went to bed this past Sunday, the east-central Illinois farmer and agronomist knew his early planted and recently emerged soybeans would be put to the test overnight. A freeze warning had been issued, and temperatures were forecast to dip into the 20s -- a recipe for potential disaster for the seedlings.
It all started in the first week of March. Both state-owned and private weather meteorology agencies issued warnings of unseasonal rains and hailstorms. From March 2-3, the climate changed, and heavy rains and hail hit Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Despite modest rainfall every now and then, the Gamtoos Valley’s drought is, alas, still with farmers who have now experienced six years of water restrictions. Over that period citrus and vegetable farmers have had to make do with 40% and then 20% of their usual water allocation.
As storms lash parts of Assam, farmers in Morigaon district, who took a loan of nearly Rs 3 lakh from a bank for the cultivation of watermelon, suffered huge losses owing to the hailstorms and rains.
According to Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas, Spain has asked Brussels for emergency funds to help the agricultural sector cope with the ongoing drought. In a letter, Madrid asked the EU's agricultural commissioner to activate the common agricultural policy's (CAP's) crisis reserve since the drought "is much more accentuated in Spain" than in other countries.
With the strawberry season coming to an end, producers have reported a difficult situation marked by large losses of volume, and a considerable increase in production costs, a situation due mainly to poor weather conditions, according to professional sources.
The prolonged cold snap this past winter has affected vineyards across B.C. Many wineries are experiencing massive grape production losses.A tour of the Privato vineyard in Westsyde shows some of the cold weather effects on grapevines.
That’s why producers are encouraged to get crop-hail insurance to protect their farming livelihood. In fact, according to the National Crop Insurance Services, in 2021, crop insurance protected 24.1 million acres. and provided $7.4 billion in liability protection in North Dakota.
Floodwaters from an overflowing Lake Success reached the Tule River next to Joseph Goni’s Tulare family dairy on March 15, in the middle of the night, much faster than he had expected.
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday instructed the party workers to collect the information of farmers who lost crops in the recent unseasonal rainfall in order to bring pressure on the government.
Just a few days ago, the Commission for the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Demarcation agreed to start the irrigation campaign with a discharge of 385 hm³ for the irrigation of crops under the General Regulation System, which, as detailed by the body itself, covers more than 345,000 hectares.