Heavy rain and hailstorm damaged crops in 18 districts of central and western Madhya Pradesh this week. Unseasonal rain, accompanied by strong winds, hit the state on Monday and is predicted over the next few days too.
Insect pests that attack crops have extraordinary powers to develop resistance to greener pesticides, and a new way to manage resistance risks is needed, according to an analysis by the University of Stirling academics.
Huelva's berry campaign is advancing with much lower volumes than usual due to the delay of the harvests caused by the different consecutive cold waves. Temperatures are rising again, but production is not expected to fully regain its capacity until week 13 or 14.
The cold snap that Morocco has been facing since the end of 2022 has severely impacted several crops, including blueberries, which have been missing from the shelves and whose prices have reached unprecedented levels.
The 2020-2023 La Niña phenomenon has been the longest in the last 66 years, with a duration of 34 months. If it continues into April, as expected, it will be the longest in the last 120 years.
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Farmers in Rajasthan are worried about the damage to crops due to unseasonal rains in the state. Dholpur city, which had been witnessing bad weather for the past three days, received rain on Thursday.
Corn and soybean production was supposed to rebound in South America this year after drought claimed crops in both Brazil and Argentina last year, but the situation has grown far worse in Argentina, limiting recovery in tight global supplies.
Last year was the third-costliest year for weather disasters in U.S. history, according to a new analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.There was an estimated $165 billion in total economic losses in 2022.
The Rajasthan government has issued instructions to all district collectors to make an assessment of crop damage due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms within a week for providing relief to the affected farmers, officials said on Thursday.
While the long-term effects of climate change continue, the COVID-19 epidemic, which spread at the end of 2019 and continued for almost two years, and the Ukraine-Russia war that followed, have had significant negative effects on agriculture and food security.
In recent days, night temperatures have again fallen to sub-zero levels in various fruit and vegetable producing areas of Spain. In the case of stone fruit, frost damage has been reported in Badajoz, where temperatures have reached -5ºC in some areas and, to a lesser extent, in Zaragoza.
In the first part of the campaign, strawberry productions have been affected by significant delays, which have become especially noticeable this past week, in which another cold snap has slowed the fruit's ripening down.
This weekend the Langkloof, straddling the Eastern and Western Cape, had hail for the third time this summer over an area extending through almost the entire valley from Avontuur and Uniondale in the west to Joubertina and Krakeel, with perhaps most damage around Misgund.
Chinese scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism for cold resistance in kiwifruit that provides potential for reducing cold-related crop damage. Cold stress can drive plants to produce an abundance of highly reactive chemicals known as reactive oxygen species (ROS), resulting in oxidative damage.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) recently warned of a hotter-than-usual March, April and May in most parts of northeast India, east and central India, and some parts of northwest India.