Growing up in rural Nigeria, Adaeze Akpagbula spent her school years baby-sitting her family’s chicks through the night, adjusting the coal heater, food and water needed to keep the poultry, and the family income, alive.
Preliminary estimates suggest a persistent decline, with domestic production of vegetables under 45 percent and fruit at around 35 percent, leading to significant import requirements.
Extreme weather events are challenging the harvest of Scotland's key potato crops, with heavy rainfall earlier this year postponing the onset of the planting season. This delay is likely to extend the harvesting period, elevating the risk of encountering further adverse weather conditions.
Ask most farmers and they will tell you there aren't many guarantees in their line of work.Crops can be up or down and that's just part of the job.But when crops are as bad as this year's sweet cherry harvest, they need help, which is just what they're asking for from the USDA.
The flood-like situation worsened in Manikchak and Bhutni areas with the River Ganga rising continuously and is near ‘extreme danger level.’ On Monday noon, the river was flowing at a height of 25.03 meters with the ‘extreme danger level’ being 25.30 metres.
Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Debby hit Pennsylvania’s Tioga County especially hard.Karl Kroeck — who grows corn, soybeans and grain on his 1,000 acre farm — is part of the cleanup and relief effort.
It's been a tough summer for some growers across the Triangle, who went from an extreme drought to record rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby in August."We went from one extreme to the other," McKinley Sills said.
The Union Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the Clean Plant Programme (CPP). Supported by a substantial investment of Rs. 1,765.67 crore and spearheaded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the CPP aims to enhance the quality and productivity of fruit crops across the country.
This past Monday, Hurricane Debby made landfall in Florida as a category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm. From Florida, the storm slowly moved up the East Coast and hit Georgia and South Carolina.
August is typically a celebration of Montgomery County’s agricultural reserves. But this season, some farmers are expressing concerns about the viability of their crops amid drought conditions. Extreme weather, both excessively dry and wet, endangers crops and pasture land and can prompt water shortages or restrictions.
With the harvest of the first early apples such as Delbarestivale, this year's apple harvest is gradually gaining momentum in many German growing regions. However, the cold, wet weather of recent months has had devastating consequences for fruit growers in many places.
Officials are warning farmers to be extra vigilant in the coming weeks asa "widespread fall armyworm infestation"continues to wreak havoc across crops inQueenslandand northernNSW— threatening winter cereals.
Poor maintenance of irrigation projects and canals have caused frequent washouts of gates and breaches in canals in Nalgonda district. The incidents have also resulted in wastage of water and submergence of crops over thousands of acres, when the previous BRS government as in power.
The convergence of Artificial Intelligence and drone technology is racing towards creating a technological renaissance in Indian agriculture, one of the mainstays of the country’s economy and people’s livelihood.
Michigan is one of the top cherry producers in the world but state officials say crop production has been a “disaster” this year because ofextreme weather patterns.Gov. Gretchen Whitmersubmitted aletterto the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Aug. 2 requesting a federal disaster declaration, which could provide businesses in northwest Michigan’s sweet cherry industry with federal assistance.
Farmers from 15 villages nearMussoorie, including Sainji, famously called 'the corn village', in Tehri Garhwal district's Jaunpur block, suffered significant losses to their maize crop this year due to heavy rainfall.