As El Niño strengthens, Indonesia is experiencing its most severe dry season in four years, fueling wildfires and threatening production of the country’s palm oil, coffee, and rice.Indonesia typically experiences hotter, drier weather during El Niño years.
The vagaries if nature continued to wreak havoc on rice growers in Punjab and Haryana with a sudden spell of rain lashing many parts of the two states Monday, flattening the standing crop, which was ready for harvesting.
Darchula, a hill district in Sudurpaschim Province, has witnessed its first snow this year. It rained with hailstones in the lower altitude while the high altitude places in the district witnessed snowfall.
At Brickyard Farm near Slingsby, North Yorkshire, Andrew Wilson has just started on his 60 ha of potatoes for McCain. Lifting conditions are okay so far, he says: “We had 10mm of rain on Monday (2 October).
The South African deciduous fruit industry is reeling under the impact of the recent floods in key production areas, particularly in Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp (EGVV), parts of the Klein Karoo, and Franschhoek.
New economic modelling by the world’s leading insurance market, Lloyd’s of London, has shown extreme weather events that lead to food and water supply shocks could cost the global economy $5 trillion over a five-year period.
The Karnataka Chief Minister said the drought condition has resulted in crop loss on 42 lakh hectares in the state and 216 out of 236 taluks have been declared drought-hit.
Heavy rain on late Saturday night has added to the worries of farmers as their paddy crop is ready for harvesting. Unseasonal rain led to waterlogging in many low-lying areas, besides flattening of paddy crop in the district.
The 2023-24 season will continue to be a recovery period for Texas citrus. “Our trees continue healing after the 2021 freeze. Our trees are about 75 percent recovered, our numbers look good and our product is just as delicious as ever, but customers should expect a crop that peaks on smaller fruit as a result of the ongoing drought,” says April Flowers of Lone Star Citrus Growers.
Vineyards across British Columbia were hard hit by a major cold snap last year, which had a significant impact on this year’s production in the Okanagan.Temperatures dropped in late December 2022, and in some areas of the valley dipped close to -30 C.
Still recovering from Hurricane Ian, Florida’s citrus industry is expected to see an increase in production after last year’s storm-damaged crop.But an initial forecast for the 2023-24 growing season, released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, projected that orange production will be half of what it was two seasons ago.
Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has proposed to give a compensation of Rs.250,000 per hectare to the farmers whose crop was damaged in the last Yala Season due to drought.
Observers agree that climate change has become the biggest challenge facing Moroccan agriculture, an assertion confirmed by professionals who are already suffering from climatic disruptions on the ground.
Lurking inside the crops of banana-producing-areas in east and central Africa is a disease called Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW)—and new modeling by researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has shown that if left uncontrolled, this bacterial disease could cause a 55% reduction in banana production in newly affected regions within 10 years.
Floods, droughts, insect infestations, storms, disease and war have caused about $123 billion per year in lost food production between 1991 and 2021, the equivalent of five percent of total production or enough to feed up to half a billion people per year, the FAO said in a report.
How much compensation bona fide farmers can receive for losses sustained as a result of Typhoon Mawar has been answered by the attorney general, who’s legal opinion was sought for clarification by the Guam Department of Agriculture.