Agriculture remains the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, contributing nearly one-fourth of gross domestic product (GDP), employing around 40% of the labour force and supporting millions of rural households.
Houses, roads and crops were damaged as fresh floods and landslides were reported across six districts of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Thursday.
Community mobilisers for the De-Risking Inclusion and Value Enhancement of Pastoral Economies (DRIVE) project, expected to benefit 375,000 pastoralists and their dependents in Kenya, were unveiled on Thursday in Wajir County.
Officials and lawmakers gathered in Dharwad, Karnataka, on Saturday for a disaster management progress review meeting. The session at the Zilla Panchayat hall focused on monsoon shortages, drought fears, and farmer challenges across the district.
The European Commission has adopted its first EU Livestock Strategy alongside a Protein Action Plan, setting out measures it says will help the livestock sector deal with economic pressures, animal disease risks, environmental requirements and shifting markets.
The Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board has announced that crop damage compensation totaling Rs. 12,341.5 million has been paid to 202,025 farmers affected by last year’s Cyclone Ditwah.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding coverage options to add revenue protection for forage producers in 12 states, part of the Department’s efforts to put Farmers First through improved cropinsurance.
A powerful storm that moved through southwest Saskatchewan Sunday night brought heavy rain, strong winds and hail, leaving a trail of crop and property damage in the Swift Current area.
A prolonged dry spell and the failure of seasonal rains have left Vadamalli farmers in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district struggling to save their crop, with large stretches of flowering plants beginning to wither across Thondamuthur Block.
Increasing interest rates and the fears of crop failure and being auctioned are top factors that have reduced the number of farmers taking up loans for agricultural purposes.
The spread of H5 bird flu to a third Australian state has focused industry attention on a structural feature of the country’s animal-disease risk model that matters to underwriters and brokers: government compensation for avian influenza reimburses culled birds but excludes the business-interruption losses that often exceed them, leaving a coverage gap that the private market fills only partially and, brokers say, on tightening terms.
The cold spring and low temperatures at the beginning of sowing had a negative impact on the development of soybeans in Ukraine.
China’s central and southern regions have been lashed by heavy rain that’s led to deaths and crop damage, with more extreme weather expected later this week from a strong typhoon heading toward the country’s east.
The Governing Council of the Junta de Extremadura has given the green light to the subscription of an administrative cooperation agreement between the regional administration and the State Agricultural Insurance Entity (Enesa), with the aim of facilitating the exchange of information for the management and supervision of subsidies for agricultural insurance contracts.
Large hail and strong winds hit towns in Veneto and Friuli, raising fears of crop damage in a key wine-growing region.
A record drought wiped out nearly half of Iido Abdikarin Abdille's herd in northern Somalia, but a livestock insurance programme is helping to ease the financial burden on pastoralists like her.