Maple trees at a Nova Scotia farm took nearly a century to grow but were decimated within just hours during post-tropical storm Fiona. The farm owner says the devastating loss hasn’t even sunk in yet.
Withless than normal rainsduring monsoon and excess rainfall after it, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are staring at heavy losses and an uncertain future.According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data, 67 of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh recorded excess rainfall last week (after September 30).
The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, like many others, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres (809 hectares) of his bone-dry fields.
As the American West grapples with another dangerous heat wave in the midst of a megadrought, official advisories rightly focus on short-term measures to keep people cool and hydrated.
AIADMK leader and legislator R.B. Udhayakumar has called upon the Tamil Nadu government to provide necessary compensation to the maize farmers of Madurai who have been facing heavy crop losses due to attacks by wild boars.
Areas of Boone County are dealing with extreme drought for the first time since 2018. Nearly 10% of the county is experiencing extreme drought, while over half has drought that is categorized as at least severe.
Agricultural producers around the world must adapt to changing weather patterns. Much research has focused on mitigation strategies for crop production, but livestock producers face unique challenges.
Heavy showers since Wednesday night have disrupted normal life and damaged acres of standing crops in many parts of Kalyana Karnataka region and central districts. Overcast conditions with intermittent rains prevailed in these districts till Thursday night.
Drought intensified in many top corn growing states this week. Dry, dusty harvesting conditions create higher fire risks as crops come out of the field. Nationally, 321.6 million acres of crops are experiencing drought.
Uttar Pradesh,which was hit by droughttill August, has been flooded with water due to sudden heavy rains at a time when the southwest monsoon is well into its retreat. Three districts of India’s largest state recorded 10,000 per cent more rainfall than normal in just 24 hours October 5, 2022.
The waters have receded, but the stink lingers. As Emma Reynolds Ezell surveys the damage that a night of 100 mile-per-hour winds wrought on her orange groves, she just can’t get over the stench.
Scientists from Switzerland, India, the Netherlands, France, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the low soil moisture, both at the surface and the root zones for most crops.
Speaking to presspersons after the inauguration of the Jamboo Savari in Dharwad on Tuesday,he said that in the beginning of 2022 he had predicted that there will be heavy rain, crop loss, nature’s fury and communal riots leading to unrest in several places and his predictions came true.
Some Florida citrus growers have lost up to 80% of their crop in the wake of Hurricane Ian, which knocked oranges to the ground with high winds and flooded groves.Ray Royce, executive director of the Highland Circus Growers Association,told The Ledgerin Lakeland that growers were reporting fruit losses of 15% to 80%.
Experts from the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) are advising growers to closely monitor crops for symptoms of the beet moth, which include blackening of the crown and the loss of new leaves.
Rains in Kota division of Rajasthan for the last two days have caused huge damage to the kharif crop. Twelve out of the four districts of the division are expected to be affected due to two days of rain. The farmers want the state government to assess the crop loss and give compensation.