At Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, scientists have embarked on research to enhance space farming techniques, crucial for future human settlements on Mars. Exploring intercropping as a food production strategy in Martian colonies.
The pre-monsoon heavy shower coupled with repeated hailstorms had badly impacted the tea industry here in the Barak Valley, as the Tea Association of India estimated a 50 percent crop loss.
Over 900 farmers have suffered losses to the tune of Rs 25 crore after their banana plantation in around 1,250 acres was destroyed in rains and wild winds in Chamarajanagar district on Friday.
Heeding the request of the agriculture department, the Election Commission has allowed the state government to pay compensation for crop losses due to hail storms. The crop losses occurred between March 16 and 24 in over 15,814 acres.
High temperature and scorching westerly winds have created an unsuitable climate for the growing lychee fruits in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. This has spelt doom for hundreds of lychee farmers, who were already worried over low flowering this year due to erratic weather.
Agricultural damage caused by El Niño has been estimated at P5.9 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).In a bulletin, the DA said that volume losses of farmed commodities was 255,467 metric tons (MT), with rice the most affected crop, accounting for 53.2% of the total.
A lot of the recent concern in Brazil has been the early end to wet season showers in central Brazil, which is forcing the crop to use up its limited subsoil moisture in a more accelerated fashion.
Welcome to the third in-season fruit article update for southeast Michigan for the 2024 season. Throughout the season, these updates will include information about the weather in the past week and the upcoming week, a fruit-by-fruit guide to current conditions with appropriate pest and disease updates, and other relevant observations.
Unpredictable weather patterns during the spring of 2024 are posing additional challenges for farmers in Ukraine. After an unusual period of high temperatures, a sudden drop in temperatures, some below freezing, has occurred in certain regions.
EastFruit analysts have conducted a thorough examination of the frost's repercussions on berry cultivation. As a reminder, the previous week concluded with numerous European nations reporting nocturnal air temperatures plummeting below the freezing point.
The Ministry of Agriculture released a report on Tuesday (April 30) detailing the agricultural damage caused by late April's heavy rains, revealing losses amounting to NT$11.84 million.
Recent cold snaps in Southwest Missouri have threatened this year’s crops for many farmers. A late frost could decimate this year’s harvest – and it has. Murphy Orchard in Marionville, Mo. has reported 60-80% crop loss on this year’s peaches. Fortunately, they say their other crops escaped the frost unharmed.
“It’s the new public enemy number one.”That describes the latest noxious weed to arrive in the Big Horn Basin — Palmer amaranth — in the words of Josh Shorb, supervisor of the Park County Weed and Pest Control District.
The past ten nights were filled with anxiety for Belgian fruit growers. Wine grapes are being called a huge disaster due to frost. For apple and pear growers, though, the consequences seem to vary significantly by region.
The organization Unió Llauradora expects the loquat production in the Region of Valencia to amount to around 10,000 tons, which entails a 30% drop compared to the previous campaign (14,000 tons). This is primarily due to the lack of rainfall.
At this stage of the season, whitefly has become the most threatening pest for citrus and kaki producers in the Spanish Region of Valencia. So much so, that the Valencian Association of Agricultural Producers (AVA-ASAJA) has described the whitefly outbreak as "an unprecedented invasion that has hit us extraordinarily early and abundantly in most of the producing regions, affecting more than 80% of the fields in some municipalities."