Applying new CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, researchers at the University of California San Diego have set their aims on a worldwide pest known to decimate valuable food crops.
For three weeks now, Hokkaido pumpkins have been harvested in the Rhine-Main region. But a very weak marketing season is emerging, says Eduard Schendel, board member and sales manager of OGZ Rhein-Main.
The latest surveys carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture show that the campaigns to combat the incidence ofDelottococuss aberiae, also known ascotonet, are having an effect. Sources from the Generalitat point out that there is an 8 to 50% reduction in their incidence in the most affected regions.
“Not surprising is a good way to describe this year’s drought.” So says Brad Rubin, Wells Fargo food and agribusiness specialty crops sector manager, of the 2022 drought picture for the state of California.
Tropical storm Florita, with international name Ma-On, exited the Philippine area Wednesday morning, leaving more than 2,000 families affected and a trail of flooding, landslides and damaged crops in northern parts of the country.
Severe droughts have been affecting several regions of Europe since the beginning of the year, and the situation is still expanding and worsening. Dry conditions are related to a wide and persistent lack of precipitation combined with early heatwaves in May and June.
An overnight fire in Tattnall County has destroyed one farm’s processing plant for Vidalia onions. Firefighters got to Dry Branch Farm just before 3 a.m. to find flames already lighting up the dark sky.
Belgian growers are bracing for an exceptionally poor potato harvest, as a severe drought and high temperatures have dilapidated fields. This July was the driest on record since 1885, when an average of only five millimetres of rainfall across the country.
General secretary of Hubballi Dharwad Mahanagar Zilla Congress Girish Gadigeppagoudar has urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to take steps to provide crop loss compensation to green gram growers, who had suffered losses due to heavy rains in North Karnataka districts.
China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.
Intense heat waves have hit many parts of the world, including the United States, many European countries, East and Central Africa, India, Pakistan, Chile, the Republic of Korea and southern China.
Nat Bradford of Bradford Family Farm in Sumter had an unfortunate announcement to make.Bradford’s watermelon crop failed to produce for the first time since he rediscovered his family’s heirloom variety that dates to the 1850s— news he delivered to customers who pre-ordered 350 to 400 watermelons.
The La Vinuela reservoir is the most important water storage facility in the southern Spanish province of Malaga. But following months without rain and an unparalleled heat wave, the reservoir has only 12% of its former water volume.
According to the Boerenbond, the national farmers' union, Belgium's apple sector is experiencing a very tough year. It advises that local apples should be promoted, for example by making their origin labels clear in the store.
As Mexico is nearing the end of their mango harvest the globally changing weather patterns are surprising producers and exporters in that country as they see droughts in the West and South with plenty of rain leading to flash floods in the North.
Avorama is located on the Mid North Coast of NSW. The company packs fruit from an area stretching as far north as Beechmont (in the hinterland behind the Gold Coast) to Mangrove Mountain in the south (approximately 1 hour north of Sydney).