After a considerable delay, the awarding of wild-grown rosemary harvesting contracts in Morocco is proceeding in several regions of the country, although some regions will not participate this season. This is reported by Mehdi Benchekroun, owner of Les Domaines Mehdi Bencherkoun.
Jamaica is currently experiencing a shortage of key food staples, including plantain and bananas, as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl. Floyd Green, the country's Agriculture Minister, reported that a preliminary assessment revealed considerable damage to various crops such as vegetables.
Francisco Estrada, President of Apratuc, has detailed the repercussions of recent frost events on blueberry crops in Argentina, particularly noting the challenges posed by what could be the coldest autumn and winter in 60 years.
South Africa's main citrus producing region for the U.S. market, Citrusdal, has been impacted by excessive rainfall during their harvest season. Although the rain doesn't impact the quality of this hardy fruit as much as other deciduous kinds of fruit, the weather has had an effect on shipments and all aspects throughout the total supply chain.
District In-charge Minister N S Boseraju said on Sunday that the state government will provide all assistance to tackle natural calamities in the district.Speaking to reporters after inspecting the rain damages in the district, he said the district administration has taken all precautionary measures to tackle natural calamities.
As the climate continues to change, the risks to farming are only going to increase.That's the key takeaway from a recent paper published by a team that included UC Merced and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers.
The monsoon has unleashed a trail of destruction with several house collapses, road accidents, and an alarming around 1,000 cases of trees falling across different parts of Goa. Amidst this chaos, the agriculture sector has been hit hard, with crop damage expected to be reaching record levels.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) poses a significant threat to banana crops as a lethal fungal pathogen. The global spread of Foc underscores the formidable challenges associated with traditional management methods in combating this pathogen.
California organic pear harvest is close to kicking off. In the Sacramento Delta region, harvest is expected to start this week, followed by the more northern located Lake County closer to August 7. It is a bit later than usual due to the recent high temperatures the state experienced.
Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) has called on the European Commission to provide crisis aid for German fruit and wine growers. He justified this on Monday at a meeting with his EU colleagues in Brussels with "frost damage of the most massive kind" this spring. The financial aid was therefore "urgent".
If you’ve suffered excessive livestock death losses and grazing or feed losses due to recent wildfires, you may be eligible for disaster assistance programs through the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
The state government has sought a report from the Department of Agriculture on the impact and losses of scarce rain on crops. The overall rain deficit in the monsoon season has reached minus 41 per cent, and around minus 75 per cent in the last 10 days.
Farmers in eastern Missouri are assessing crop damage after EF0 tornadoes and heavy rains moved through Warren and Jefferson Counties earlier this week.“There are fields of corn laying down and the biggest thing was probably the 4 to 9 inches of rain in 45 minutes or less.”
A handful of farmers in Innisfil are dealing with flooded crops due to last week's heavy rain and culvert construction on Highway 400 and Simcoe County Road 89.Laura Tasca and her husband, James, own 180 acres of crops on their Innisfil farm, which resembled a lake over the weekend with roughly 100 acres flooded.
Severe drought followed by heavy rains caused crop damage of Rs 500 crore in the state between March and June.The loss incurred in this month has not been calculated.However, even the compensation for last year remains in arrears.
The weather in Portugal has proven an unstable factor when it comes to the cultivation of kiwiberries, says Filipe Gomes, export manager for Portuguese fresh produce exporter Twinkle Green: "So far, the mini kiwi season has been going on with ups and downs. In the north of Portugal, the weather has been very unstable.