AgroInsurance International Conference will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia on September 26-28, 2022. Hannover Re–the leading agricultural reinsurance company is the official Conference Sponsor. Five companies have already supported this event contributing to the Conference agenda making presentations on various aspects of agricultural insurance during the first two days.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has announced a short extension to the Horticulture Exceptional Payment Scheme (HEPS). The Scheme will now close at midnight on Friday 24 June, 2022. It had been due to close at midnight this Friday 17 June.
Large swathes of crops including paddy have been destroyed by heavy floods in China, leading to further challenges to food security. The authorities have warned of more rains in the coming days.
The Supreme Court has stayed a Bombay High Court order which had asked Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Ltd. to compensate over 3.5 lakh farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for loss of soya bean crop due to heavy rainfall in 2020.
Rains and flooding have forced many farmers in the eastern half of South Dakota to delay getting crops into the ground, and some are now well behind the typical planting schedule or have had to cut back the acreage they are able to plant.
Corn foliar diseases such as southern corn rust and tar spot may be more problematic this year. Agronomy and plant disease specialists urge farmers to stay vigilant, scouting for the potential yield-robbing pathogens, and be ready to protect crops.
Suraj Kumar, a mango grower in Malihabad in Lucknow districtis busy spraying pesticide in the scorching heat. Usually, one needs tospray pesticide twice in an acre. But due to threat from pests, such as thrip, fruitborer and semi loopers, Kumar is being forced to spray pesticides for the seventh consecutive time.
Recent thunderstorms produced damaging hail in several areas of Michigan and crop producers are assessing the damage. The good news is that the damage probably looks worse than it is because soybeans have a remarkable ability to recover and produce new growth when damaged during the early vegetative growth stages.
The disruption of rail and surface transportin Barak Valley caused by relentless rains and landslides has put a screeching halt to the despatch of tea from the area, pushing Assam’s tea industry into a deep crisis.
“This year began with many complications. There were floods in the north bringing serious consequences to the operation of the port of Durban after drought affected the size of the fruit,” says Shaun Swart, country manager South Africa, Salix Fruits.
Livesay Orchards announced Thursday that they lost a significant amount of their peach crop due to recent storms. The orchard says a May 5 hail storm knocked off and damaged several peaches.
Crops were damaged in a hailstorm in several parts of Mandi district yesterday. While rain brought cheers to people in Mandi, ending a long dry spell, at a few places the hailstorm caused huge losses to farmers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Bajaj Allianz to submit before it Rs 200 crore in six weeks, responding to petitions filed by Maharashtra farmers seeking relief from the insurance company for crop loss.
An exceptionally early heatwave in France and Spain may further stress wheat crops after a dry spring though an expected easing in temperature and showers across the region this month should avert large crop losses, analysts and growers said.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for Eastern Africa and the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock have successfully released biological control agents of the Mango Mealybug in Burundi.
Seeding is nearly complete in Saskatchewan.According to the weekly crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture, 98 per cent of the crop is in the ground in areas where seeding was possible.