Arjuna Jinadasa owns a plot of land full of coconut trees inKurunegala, in northwestern Sri Lanka, where he enjoys a good produce of about 3,000 coconuts a month. With Sri Lanka’s traditional cuisine heavily reliant on coconut milk, it’s a crop with high demand.
Spells of unseasonal rain, accompanied by hailstorm and lightning, have extensively damaged rabi crops in parts of Vidarbha, Marathwada and north Maharashtra.
The Association of Strawberry Producers and Exporters of Huelva, Freshuelva, has calculated that, as the strawberry campaign nears its midpoint, production is 30% lower than on the same date last season and that it will be very hard to recover from this fall in the rest of the campaign.
Gaps are on their way. That’s the conclusion following California’s continued rains and their effect on the spring row vegetable crops.“There have been short-term challenges such as getting products in and out of the field because it’s so wet.
Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday announced that farmers would be given a relief amount of Rs 32,000 a hectare for crops loss of over 50 percent due to hailstorm and untimely rains in the state.
Pascual Hortelano of FECOAM, the federation of horticultural cooperatives of Murcia, confirmed that the production of extra early stone fruit, which has already suffered losses due to frost, is behind schedule this year.
A North Carolina State University study suggests that cover crops – or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons – can help keep Midwestern soil drier and healthier, thereby preventing losses incurred when farmers can’t plant cash crops because of flooding or excessive soil moisture.
Untimely rains and hailstorms over the past few days damaged crops in parts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and other parts of northern India.
Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and hailstorm in many parts of the state has added to the woes of farmers. The farmers are likely to suffer a loss of over 10 per cent of their yield.
This rabi season, wheat has been sown over 34.9 lakh hectares in the state and the crop is at the maturing stage. It will be ready for harvest in two-three weeks.Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday ordered a girdawari (survey) to assess the damage to the wheat crop due to the rain in the state over the past three days.
Watch and wait. That’s where California strawberry growers are at following late last week’s record rainfalls and subsequent flooding in the Salinas-Watsonville region.
East Anglian farmers are cutting back on irrigated crops like potatoes, onions and carrots this year, responding to the growing threat of a second summer drought. The region is one of only two in the country still officially in drought, six months after last summer's heatwave left farmers struggling.
A drought of biblical proportions in Argentina is showing no signs of letup, with soybean plants getting baked to a crisp on the Pampas farm belt.The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange has slashed its forecast for the crop by another 14 percentto 25 million metric tons, which would be the smallest harvest since it began keeping records in 2001.
Mississippi's blueberry supply could be scarce this season after a Sunday night, Monday morning freeze."Anytime you have a crop failure or crop loss it's going to affect it," said Tim Cooper, owner of Cooper Farms in Morton.
A recent survey of 400 farmers by AgReliant and AgriGold shows tar spot is the No. 1 corn disease of concern heading into the 2023 growing season. And for good reason.“Tar spot can be very damaging,” Whitney Monin, national agronomy manager for AgriGold, said at Commodity Classic.
As concerns of heatwave ebbed across key wheat-growing states in India, wheat harvest in the country is now facing worries from showers and hailstorms. Traders are concerned that the showers and hailstorms may lead to yield and quality loss in the crop.