Usually, Kansas is known for its fields of waist-high golden wheat. But this year, the blistering conditions have withered some of the crop into short, patchy straw. Standing in one of his fields in northwest Kansas, Chris Tanner wonders if it'll even make it through harvest.
National Conference leader and District President, Ramban Mr Sajjad Shaheen on Wednesday expressed concern over losses caused to infrastructure, private property and the crops due to recent incessant rains and sought immediate survey of the damages so that the affected people are compensated.
As climate change-induced disasters surge around the world, it is the people of the least developed countries paying the bulk of the costs. According to the International Disaster Database, the number of disasters across the globe has risen by 74.5% — comparing data from 1980–1999 with 2000–2019 — and these numbers are expected to increase due to the most recent climate change scenarios.
Early summer heat and a lack of rain is causing major problems for area farmers as they attempt to salvage this year’s crops. A rainy spring forced most crop farmers to plant corn and soybeans one to two months behind schedule, leaving young plants to fend off the intense heat in June.
The open ground bell pepper production is recovering in the Spanish region of Murcia after having been reduced by about 30% in the first part of the campaign due to the impact of bad weather in the early spring.
Biological control of the flatheaded borer worm pest is becoming common among Spanish almond tree growers, who are demanding truly effective solutions against a very harmful pest, capable of causing the death of the tree. In fact, the insect's larvae feed directly on the roots of the almond tree and, if not controlled in time, the uprooting of the tree can become the only alternative available to the grower.
More than 6,000 farmers in undivided Anantapur district have applied for rectification of crop insurance compensation or have applied anew for the payment of compensation as they had lost their crop during the last kharif season, either due to excess rain or drought.
The president of the National Garlic Table and the Coopaman second-degree cooperative, Julio Bacete, has stated that the garlic is drying up ahead of time, especially where water is scarce, because of the heat wave there's been these days and the high temperatures in May.
East Africa's yearslong battle against destructive swarms of locusts appears to be nearing an end with an encouraging assessment from the United Nations.
The Meseguer establishments started their stone fruit season over a month ago with the Spanish origin. “This year, the season is very complicated,” explains Benoît Maillard-Guillon of the import company specialized in stone fruits, among others.
The Hisar administration has reportedly approved Rs 195 crore as compensation to farmers in the district for damage to kharif crop during 2020. The farmers, however, continued with their dharna seeking compensation for kharif crop damage during 2020 and 2021.
Heavy rains caused some of the blueberry orchards in the Samegrelo region to be flooded in Georgia yesterday. Local farmers claim that harvesting has resumed this morning in less affected orchards, though short-term rain has forced them to stop picking.
Unfortunately, Porter’s Livesay Orchards is not catching a break with their peach crop. The famous Porter orchard announced on June 16 that they were going to have ‘another significant loss’ in their peach crop for summer 2022.
Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue, today announced approval for a scheme to support tillage farmers impacted by historic levels of rainfall experienced in Co. Wexford last Christmas. The rainfall resulted in the complete loss of some crops in a localised area.
Young crops are under water as every pot hole, tire track, and culvert has overflowed with rain recently. We didn't have to travel far to find greasy gravel roads, and water lying in the ditches.
Farmers in the State, especially paddy growers, are having a tough time due to the faltering southwest monsoon in June and July. According to the extended forecast issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), below-normal rainfall is likely across the State for the next two weeks.