The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) received $2.3 million in funds from the Swedish government on Tuesday to support the post-harvest losses project implemented by the United Nations in Sudan.
Rising global temperatures have affected Zimbabwe heavily, with extreme events like veld fires, cyclone-induced heavy rainfall and droughts. This has led to farmers in the southern African country facing crop losses.
The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday decided to pay compensation up to three hectares to farmers who lost their crops due to retreating rains last month. This decision was taken in the weekly Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Just over a week ago, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food published an analysis of the 2021/22 nut campaign and the first forecasts for the 2022/23 campaign that is now starting.
After a fight for about three months, 14 farmers of Dhannur-B village in Boath mandal of Adilabad district got a hope of getting justice.Arshad Begum, an agriculture extension officer, visited their fields recently to assess the loss they incurred due to heavy rains that took place in the month of July.
Following last month’s Hurricane Ian that made its way through Florida, the upcoming strawberry season will see a later start. “They’re at least a week to 10-12 days behind schedule because of the storm.
The HLB vector was first detected in the Portuguese citrus region of the Algarve, Aljezur, in October 2021. A year later, theTrioza erytreaehas colonized about 200 kilometers of the southernmost Atlantic coast of Portugal and is already less than 120 km away from the first plantations of Huelva, in Ayamonte.
The ongoing apple crop for 2022/23 for was initially estimated by WAPA at a volume very similar to the preceding crop. Since the month of August 2022, however, several Member States registered additional drought and heatwave events that will result on smaller fruit sizes and, therefore, lower volumes.
Chamarajanagar district has experienced unprecedented rains this year and this has left the farming community in distress. Against a normal of 320 mm between June and September, Chamarajanagar received 510 mm of rains this year.
GhanashyamNial of Mahulpada village of Nuapada district feels devastated as his 3.5 acres of land in BartansilMauza of Boden block took hardly three days to turn gray due to pest attack. "Agriculture officials say the disease is called ‘blast’.
North Carolina is helping farmers recover from one of the worse apple crops to date, keeping early freezes, hail, and tropical storms from taking a bite out of Henderson County's apple industry.
Conditions were very wet last week, which has meant that harvesting has been halted in many areas and the outlook for next week is uncertain. There are reports of some quality issues with current conditions.
A farmers grievances redress meeting was held at the Collectorate here on Friday and Collector V. Jayachandra Bhanu Reddy presided over it.Farmers demanded compensation for crop loss due to rain.
The Phytosanitary Alert and Information Network (RAIF) has reported that the presence of red spider mites is being detected in a high percentage of autumn cycle pepper crops in the province of Almeria.
The recent flooding has caused a loss of up to five billion dollars worth of crops in both Victoria and New South Wales, devastating the farming community.Chair of Grain Grovers, Brett Hosking, explained the far reaching effects the flooding has had in his local community of Quambatook in northern Victoria and beyond.
Pests and diseases have caused crop loss up to 80 percent in some farms in Nigeria on an estimation of 1.5 to 200,000 hectares of land in 2022.The crops mostly affected include; maize, rice, sorghum, millet, soybean, groundnut, cowpea in thirty-three states including root and tubers, fruit and vegetables and tree crops.