The Dominican Republic’s pineapple harvest has been delayed by what was described as the “largest rainfall event ever” with the tropical storm that hit and caused flooding on the island two weeks ago (17-19 November, 2023). According to producers and exporters the storm caused at least a week of delays in harvesting and exports.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday directed district authorities to carry out a preliminary survey of damage to crops in the unseasonal rains that have lashed several parts of the state in the past few days.
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“It rained again this week in the region,” while water had begun to recede at the end of last week. On Tuesday, the Pas-de-Calais department was again placed under orange alert for rain and floods. According to Vigicrues, this new rainfall is likely to cause rivers to rise again.
The current state of this year’s potato harvest in Ireland and the UK has seen significant challenges. A primary concern is the slow progress due to persistent poor weather conditions, with an estimated 20-30% of the national main crop yet to be harvested.
Floods now submerging large swathes of Paraguay's agricultural land and disruptive, heavy rain elsewhere in South America's rice growing regions are raising concerns about the development of the 2024 harvest.
Agriculture Minister Kakani Goverdhan Reddy has urged farmers not to worry in view of deficit rainfall as the State government will help them in every manner.“In all, 103 mandals in seven districts are facing drought and concrete measures have been taken to mitigate the suffering of drought-affected farmers.
Almond producer Select Harvests swung to a $114.7 million loss for the year to June as it sold smaller volumes at lower prices. However, it sought to reassure investors that performance would improve this year due to lower production in the US, the world’s-largest market, which would push prices back up.
The European Commission presented its proposal for a support measure worth €51.7 million to directly support Greek and Slovenian farmers affected by natural disasters. Coming from the agricultural reserve 2024,€43.1 million will be allocated to Greece and €8.6 million to Slovenia.
The fruit guild has already begun to estimate the possible damage that the intense rains that affected the central and southern areas of Chile last weekend will have on the 2023/2024 season.
In what’s shaping up to be a dire situation for Ireland, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has declared this year’s potato harvest “the worst in recent memory.” Sean Ryan, chair of the National Potato Committee, paints a grim picture of the season turning into a “salvage operation” due to unrelenting rainfall.
Europe’s flooded fields are delaying sugar harvesting and threatening to wipe out 15 percent of beet crops still to be collected in France, one of the region’s biggest growers of the sweetener.
2022 brought a stretch of cold weather and wind chills, leaving farmers to feel the effect today.Corndodgers Farm in Headland has cancelled their Satsuma Day due to crop loss, claiming it to be a result of the uncharacteristic cold last year.
As many as 208,916 farmers suffered heavy losses in Barisal division due to Cyclone Midhili, which made landfall in the coastal districts on Friday (November 17).A total of 19,655 hectares of crops were damaged in six districts, amounting to losses of around Tk182 crore.
It was early November and Scott Haerr still had 2,500 acres of corn to harvest on his farm in south-westOhio.The harvest should be much further down the road – a dry spring was followed by adequate summer rain and heat, and then a dry fall meant no obvious delays were in the forecast.
Severe flooding in East Africa has intensified an already dire humanitarian situation, leaving millions of people in need of assistance, warns the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Shashwat Saraf, East Africa Emergency Director at IRC, sheds light on the escalating crisis and its devastating impact on vulnerable communities.