A sudden heat wave is happening in Egypt from Friday, April 7, until Monday, April 10, causing a rapid and intense increase in temperatures, reaching a 5-10 degrees difference, and alarming the producers of several crops.
The domestic orange campaign started in 2022 with the prospect of a significant drop in the production, estimated at 20% nationally and at 24-25% in Andalusia, according to the first estimates from the regional government.
As some of their plants and trees sprouted far too early, Austrian farmers are now scrambling to protect their harvest. The recent cold weather is freezing the trees' sensitive buds and farmers are resorting to creative measures to protect them. Some are using heaters to force heat directly onto the plants.
Haryana’s Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister JP Dalal said girdawari work was being done on a large scale to assess the crop loss due to weather vagaries. The government is with the farmers and every possible help will be given to compensate for the loss, he said.
The rains that fell in recent weeks have damaged the crops of some 4,300 farmers in the country. By type of crop, the most affected are rice plantations, with damage to 7,975 hectares, of which 62% suffered total loss.
The persistent cold from mid-January to early March, and the frosts when Granada's green asparagus season was starting in mid-March (with temperatures as low as -10ºC) affected the earliest crops and led to a slowdown in the harvest.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is scheduled to chair a meeting on Monday at the Sahyadri Guest House to discuss the 'agrarian crisis' after unseasonal rains wreaked havoc across the state.
The district administration has instructed officials of the Revenue and Agriculture Departments to submit reports of a girdawari announced by the state government for assessment of crop loss due to recent rains before April 14.
Growers are warning of shortages on supermarket shelves after freezing temperatures in December and January wiped out 40 per cent of the UK cauliflower crop. According to Martin Tate, commercial director at Lincolnshire Field Products and chairman of the Brassica Growers Association, a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions had hit growers across the country, with those in worst-hit regions such as Lincolnshire losing as much as half of their crops.
The government on Friday said wheat production loss due to recent inclement weather is likely to be in the range of 1-2 million tonnes but overall production will reach a record 112.2 million tonne in the current year on higher acreage and yield.
The high humidity and the continuous rains since the end of February in Tumbes and Piura, in the north of the country, have increased the presence of Mildiu on table grape crops in this area, stated Jose Luis Juarez, a phytosanitary advisor on this product.
This year’s tomato Goulburn Valley crops have been severely affected by last year’s heavy rain and the severe storm that raged last month. Some field tomato farmers have reported losses of more than 50 percent of their crops caused by later spring plantings, hail damage, and disease.
As gruesome as Indian summers can get, there is always sweet comfort in knowing we have inched another blistering step towards the mighty mango season. Truly, but a few things rejoice in the power to bring us to our knees as the sight of the king of fruits adorned opulently in fruit stalls.
The Gujarat government on Wednesday said unseasonal rains in March damaged crops and horticultural produce on more than 42,000 hectares in 15 districts, and "financial assistance" will be provided to the affected farmers.
Although far behind Huelva, which accounts for more than 96% of the Spanish strawberry production, the latest data on production, area, and crop yields shared by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food revealed that the second largest strawberry production area in Spain is the Canary Islands; a region that is suffering the same problems as Huelva, despite its distinct climatic and geographical characteristics.
In the Netherlands, the fickle weather is over, and the sun is back. But, there has been light nightly frost again, Weer.nl reports. For many fruit growers, that means there is work to be done to prevent damage.