The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available in Virginia for small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations with economic losses due to the ongoing severe drought.
Several electric poles were uprooted under the impact of cyclone Michaung in Suryalanka of Bapatla district, causing severe inconvenience to the public. In Appikatla of the district, paddy crop in hundreds of acres was damaged.
Kelowna-West MLA Ben Stewart has already announced his intent to retire from politics when the provincial election is called next year.But in his final months on the job, Stewart is making a push for the provincial government to address the current crisis in the Okanagan wine industry – a shortfall of B.C. grown grapes.
Standing paddy crops in at least a millionacres or404,685 hectaresacross eight districts of Andhra Pradesh — its rice bowl — may have beenaffected as a result of rains caused by Cyclone Michaung that made landfall on December 5, an expert has said.This would translate into losses of Rs 4,000 crore.
After generations of tilling the land in central Nepal’s mid-hills, 47-year-old Purna Lama’s family is at a daunting crossroads.Weather patterns, shifting dramatically over the past five to six years, have posed difficulties for farmers like Lama, who supports a family of eight on a plot of land smaller than two acres (0.8 hectares).
Relentless rainfall, attributed to the El Niño phenomenon, has unleashed devastating floods in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Kenya, compounding the region's challenges after experiencing its worst drought in four decades.
Vineyards on over 50,000 acres in the Sangli district in India were damaged due to heavy unseasonal rainfall last week, some of which were in the flowering stage and some almost ready to be harvested.
A few weeks ago, as Micah Onyango, a farmer from Kisumu planted seedlings in anticipation of a bountiful fall harvest, heavy rains and hailstones shattered his hopes, devastating crops like kale, eggplant, and green grams.
In the wake of the devastating Lahaina wildfire in August 2023, researchers from different fields at the University ofHawaiʻiare embarking on two public impact research projects focused on transforming how we monitor and respond to disasters in the agricultural sector, and analyzing the possible effects of chromium on Lahaina agricultural lands.
In the final week of November, farmers in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Gujarat faced distress as they were greeted by untimely rainfall and, in some instances, hailstorms.
Heavy rainfall with strong gales over the last two days dumped by cyclone Michaung dealt a blow to farmers in parts of Andhra Pradesh as agricultural and horticultural crops in thousands of hectares were damaged.
Chile’s early cherry production will be down by 50 per cent, according to the latest forecast released by Fedefruta. This revises its earlier estimate that 30 per cent of the early crop would be lost due to split fruit and points to a total export crop of below 80m cartons.
The Spanish Rosa de Barbastro tomato campaign ended with a yield of two million kilos. That is 1 million less than the initial forecast of the season. The decrease affected small producers who faced various challenges.
According to new estimates, the crop damage caused by the unseasonal rains over the last few days has climbed to 390,000 hectares.The maximum damage has been in Yavatmal, where 130,000 hectares of crops have been affected.
“Producers in Malaga believe that they've lost a third of their subtropical crops due to two consecutive years of drought,” stated Enrique Colilles, the president of the recently established Avocado and Mango Inter-branch Organization.
In just a few weeks, the passion fruit harvest will begin on the Costa Tropical of Granada, after a mango campaign that, in the case of Finca El Edén, has been quite good. "We are specialized in the production and marketing of organic tropical fruit, and when it comes to mangoes, we grow the Irwin variety," said Eva Cantos, owner of the farm.