While the district administration on Friday said crop on 13,000 acres of land across 40 villages in the district had been affected by the floods, the assessment of damages is still an ongoing process with many villages still submerged in the district.
Despite suffering massive losses due to the flooding, farmers in several parts of the state are transplanting paddy for the third time without waiting for a special girdawari announced by the Punjab Government.
Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike commodities and the food supply like never before. The recentglobal heat wave, deadly floods acrossChina's grain beltand wildfires that spanned severalcontinentshave put a spotlight on how climate change may wreak havoc on the world's most-consumed food crops.
In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye.Withering molds, root-rotting bacteria, viruses, and other plant pathogens destroy an estimated 15 to 30% of global harvests every year.
The drought monitor report as of 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1 is essentially unchanged again since last week for our area. The western third of the state continues to improve, especially near the Colorado border where a substantial chunk of the southwest corner is out of even abnormally dry conditions.
Goa Agriculture Minister Ravi Naik on Monday informed the state legislative assembly that crop losses have been reported in parts of the state due to extreme rainfall last month.
New research that includes the help of a Husker could be key to protecting honey bees.48% of the colonies managed by beekeepers across the U.S. were lost in 2022. The Varroa mite is a major threat that regularly triggers catastrophic colony loss.
Last week’s extreme heat wave across the Corn Belt may have caused some top-end yield loss for some crops.Trey Stephens is an agronomist with Becks who covers Southeast Nebraska and says the corn crop likely suffered some damage.
Darren Yanke awakes to the sun. It’s beating down once again on his family farm, located in central Sauk County near Leland. The fourth-generation farmer, there at Echo-Y-Farms, shakes his head as he cranes his neck up to the sky looking for clouds or, better yet, rain.
Historic flooding in Beijing is causing loss of life, mass evacuations, and billions of yuan in property damage. The heavy summer monsoon rains also are hitting Hebei province, which surrounds the Chinese capital and is one of the country’s principal corn growing regions.
Producers are preparing for harvest in the east-central region this week and are testing their grain moisture levels to gauge when to start combining, according to the crop report for the period of July 25 to 31. Some have made a small amount of progress with harvest already.
Crop yield potential has decreased in many parts of the province due to the dry heat, and producers are hoping for more rain before harvest to finish up seed filling. Harvest has begun in the driest areas of the province.
The district has received Rs.4.04 crore as part of the crop loan waiver move of theState governmenton Thursday. In a press statement, Collector A Sharath said the district had received Rs.4.04 crore as crops in 4,047 acres were damaged due to untimely rains in March.
Farmers both contribute to the climate crisis – they’re responsible for producing at least 11 percent of U.S. greenhouse gasemissions– and can also be devastated by its harmful effects, with extreme weather commonly destroying crop yields.
On Wednesday, meteorologists from the National Weather Service in Bismarck surveyed storm damage from Tuesday across Mercer and Burleigh counties.In Mercer County, the worst damage was at Beulah Bay.
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As human-wildlife conflict incidents are rising in the district, the Pune Forest Division has reported at least 341 incidents of losses between April 2022 and March 2023. For this, the department has compensated₹23.58 lakh to the victims, said a forest official.