Emergency protocols have been activated in south central Chile to save crops from unusually heavy spring rains.With cherries bound for export threatened, four Ecocopter helicopters flew over the crops in the O’Higgins region in order to avoid and prevent the splitting, rotting or staining of the fruit.
Heavy rain in the east of Australia is threatening to downgrade the wheat crop and could have severe knock-on effects on a world grain market which was counting on a bumper harvest.
On the 6th of October parts of New Zealand were hit by a severe frost event, the likes of which had not been seen in many years.The regions significantly affected included Opotiki, Edgecumbe, Tauranga, Katikati and Edgecumbe.
About 2 million smallholder farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who operate without insurance despite the increased frequency of hurricanes will get support from international institutions including the World Bank, the lender said.
Serious damage to blueberry orchards in the Ñuble region was caused by the frost recorded on October 31. Losses in some orchards reach 100% of production, depending on location and varieties, which means, in practice, the end of the season for them.
Heavy October rains and more expensive seeds are likely to affect the potato harvest of the Uttar Pradesh area in India. The producers had to sow for a second time after the heavy rain damaged the seeds, making farmers worried about a coming lower harvest.
On Thurs., Nov. 10, the National Potato Council and a dozen state potato associations issued a letter to USDA Undersecretary of Marketing and Regulatory Services Jenny Moffitt calling on the department to work with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to develop new phytosanitary protocols to prevent the spread of potato wart from Prince Edward Island to U.S. growing areas.
Recent cold temperatures and snow could put an early end to British Columbia’s fruit season. Balpreet Gill with the Oliver, B.C.-based Gold Star Fruit Company Ltd. says the Okanagan region had a very warm October with record-breaking temperatures of 30º Celsius.
Florida tomato growers and shippers are watching and waiting to find out the impact of Tropical Storm Nicole on the state’s tomato production. “Supply was already somewhat short until December because of Hurricane Ian.
After a difficult two years of the covid-19 pandemic, Manjeet Singh was hopeful that 2022 would bring some cheer. A farmer from Harigarh village in Punjab’s Barnala district, Singh owns 4.04 hectares of farmland, the only source of his livelihood.
As BJD is planning to make non-settlement of crop insurance claims of Bargarh farmers as a major issue during the by-election to Padampur Assembly constituency, Cooperation Minister Atanu Sabyasachi on Wednesday urged Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to direct the insurance companies for speedy disbursal of the crop insurance claims of the affected farmers.
Due to ongoing droughts in California, a state with the leading tomato production, the US might experience shortages of this staple during 2023.Other farm grown produce might be in short supply during 2023 too.
While torrential rain and floods drowned the east coast over the last couple of months, WA was looking to have escaped the chaos this season. However this week all that changed, with a swathe of the central and northern WA wheat belt lashed with extreme hailstorms and flooding rain, leaving damaged crops in its path.
Cromwell-based orchardist, Simon Webb, says a high exposed block on his property that only had wind machines for protection, received a reasonable percentage of damage, while some of his other blocks still had up to 70 percent of the crop left.
Crop programming is touted as the solution to ensure Filipino vegetable producers do not continue to flood markets and incur huge losses.The Benguet provincial government is looking at the solution because producers all plant the same crop, harvest at the same time and flood markets.
Salinas Valley lettuce growers are tallying their losses from a set of plant viruses that continue to increase in frequency and intensity across the region.“It was a disaster as we wrapped up the year,” said Salinas Valley lettuce grower Mark Pisoni. “I’ve seen 20-acre fields without a single head of lettuce harvested.”