Portugal's environmental minister has officially declared a 25% water reduction for agriculture and a 15% reduction for urban usage in the Algarve region due to severe drought conditions.
In the thriving landscape of Serbian agriculture, recognition for top farmers reached new heights last year through the ‘Blic Top Farmer’ project, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
It’s invisible, and you can’t see it until it’s too late; internal fruit rot is a significant problem for field-grown capsicum growers, as it remains unseen until the consumer cuts into the vegetable, leading to rejections by retailers and a loss of consumer confidence.
In the rapidly warming Arctic, Inuit homes arefalling into the oceanas coastlines quickly deteriorate. Sea ice melting is giving way to newpowerful cyclones. And as the permafrost thaws, astaggering amount of methaneis released, pushing the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere to even more dangerous levels.
Nearly a century after the mass agricultural disaster known as the Dirty ’30s, drought conditions on the Prairies are once again raising the risk that farmers’ valuable topsoil will go blowing in the wind.
Arecent report finds the federal government is spending billions on crop failures caused by extreme weather -- and it’s only growing more expensive.Crop insurance payouts surpassed $118 billion between 2001 and 2022 nationally for damage caused by extreme weather such as drought, heat and floods.
The State government will release the first instalment of compensation money to 30 lakh farmers in the next one week, Revenue Minister Krishna Byregowda said here on Friday.
As demand for sustainably grown produce increases, growers often face a dilemma. They may want to grow crops for this market but find that premiums for sustainably produced items may not be enough to match the added costs.
A farmer from Varca expressed dismay that his crops, banana plantation etc were destroyed by wildlife causing him heavy losses.The farmer, Santolin Fernandes, who lives in Betalbatim, said he has the field measuring 500 square metres and along with his team, had been working hard to prepare the fields for the rabi season.
Although it is not nearly as cold as in Canada or some parts of the US, the state of Florida has been impacted by cooler weather lately. “It has been cool, rainy, and overcast for at least the past month,” says Geoff Taft with Pioneer Growers.
Kashmir is known for its enchanting winter vistas, is currently experiencing an unusual and disconcerting phenomenon – a snowless winter. This climatic anomaly has cast a dark shadow over Kashmir’s thriving Rs 10,000 crore fruit industry, raising serious concerns within the Valley.
By mid-January, the stock of onions stored at room temperature in the hands of producers in Spain "is very limited" and, of this stock, "the amount of quality onions to be packaged in nets or supermarket bags is minimal," says Fermín Utrilla, from Biodiversa.
Fungal pathogens continue to cause devastating losses across staple crops, which are expected to worsen with global warming. Enko andSyngentaannounced today the discovery of a novel chemistry solution to control problematic fungal diseases that can obliterate cereal crops as part of a multi-year collaboration to bring new, affordable, safe, and sustainable crop protection solutions to farmers globally.
Potato fields in different areas of Rangpur district have been seriously affected by the outbreak of late blight disease during this season, much to the worry of the growers.The fungal disease caused by intense cold and dense fog is severely jeopardising potato cultivation in many areas across the region, making the cultivators apprehensive of a crop failure.
Calamitous rains lashed the province on Saturday night, causing widespread disaster and loss of lives.The extreme thunderstorms coupled with lightning resulted in farmworkers in Newsstand, Woodford, and Langkloof being struck by lightning.
The spirit of Pongal has been severely dampened in the Mayiladuthurai district after several thousands of acres of paddy were destroyed in the harvest stage due to unseasonal rains over the past week.