USDA announced assistance is available for farmers and ranchers affected by thesevere weather and tornadothat tore through Mississippi on March 25.Friday’s EF4 storm hit the rural community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a small delta town surrounded by cotton farms.
As a stupendous rainy season moves toward its end for California, some have been attempting to measure the costs of the damages.A long article, published on March 25, attempts to put some figures on the losses in the Salinas and Watsonville regions.
Kerala, which depends on other states for agriculture products, has been losing crops on huge tracts of land natural calamities every year, shows data procured under the RTI Act.
With inclement weather, including untimely rain and hailstorm, badly affecting the standing crops over the past few days, the cash-strapped Punjab government Monday announced a moratorium on the repayment of loans taken by farmers from Punjab State Cooperative Agriculture Development Bank (PSCADB).
Beijing Climate Center (BCC) released a report which said that in the winter of 2022/2023, the national average temperature was generally high, with large fluctuations.The spatial distribution of precipitation across the country was uneven, with more precipitation in North China and less in Southwest China.
Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have extended relief to farmers whose crops have been destroyed in unseasonal rains which lashed the region in the last few weeks.In Punjab, the government increased the amount of compensation that farmers will get for the crop loss, which some say could lead to a 10-15 per cent drop in wheat yields.
People may not be aware that there is an ongoing issue on the recent decision of the Insurance Commission to temporarily shelve the implementation of IC Circular 2022-34, dated July 14, 2022, correcting the minimum catastrophe insurance rates from 0.15 percent to 0.2 percent, supposedly to take effect from January 2023.
"In the month of February 2023, though the maximum temperature was hovering around 32-33°C in most of the northern plains, it did not impact the wheat grain growth since the crop canopy temperature can be easily modulated by 2-3°C less than the air temperature by irrigation."
“Wireworms are commonly seen across cereals – wheat, barley, oat, as well as other crops like corn, soybeans, dry beans and potatoes,” said Tracy Hillenbrand, regional technical representative for BASF.
The Chilean avocado industry is closing its latest season with 155,000 tons, according to the latest estimate by the country'sAvocado Committee. That figure represents a 30% year-on-year decrease from last season’s 220,000 tons.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday directed officials to initiate measures to extend financial assistance announced by the State government to farmers whose crops suffered damage due to recent unseasonal rains.
The rains in India will not impact all mango growers and exporters. Yashwant Chakve Patil, director of Indian fruit exporter AA Reyach International, states that he even expects to harvest more volumes of mangoes this year: “For us as a company, we mainly do the Alphonso and Kesher varieties when it comes to the mangoes.
After untimely rain accompanied by hail and high-velocity winds damaged wheat and other crops in several parts of Punjab, chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday announced 25% encasement in compensation to farmers.
Short-term pain with some long-term gains. That's what California growers are facing following recent headline-making rains in key California growing regions such as the Salinas Valley.
The National Garlic Table held in Las Pedroñeras (Cuenca) discussed the reduction of production, drought, and the alleged fraudulent entry of frozen garlic from China into the European Union.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said he has issued directions for a special “girdawari” (field inspection) to assess crop damage due to recent rains in the state. He asked the officials to complete the task within a week, asserting that there was no shortage of funds for giving compensation for crop loss.