Chocolate risks becoming even more expensive if West Africa’s new cocoa harvest ends in disappointment.Cocoa prices have soared about 47% in the past year on fears that bad weather and crop disease will hurt output in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, which make up two-thirds of world supply.
In Greece, people are counting the cost of the devastating floods that hit the centre of the country after Storm Daniel in early September.Fruit trees, corn and around a fifth of Greece's cotton crop have been destroyed and over 200,000 animals and poultry killed.
Jagdish Dhangar (45) had planted soya beans on his two acres hoping that a bountiful harvest would cover the expenses of his son’s wedding and help pay the EMI.However, nearly a month after the sowing, a prolonged dry spell with scanty rainfall destroyed half of his crop.
In the second preliminary report on agricultural damage from Hurricane Idalia, state officials on Wednesday estimated the Aug. 30 storm caused up to $447 million in losses for the industry.
After last weekend's prodigious rainfall across the Western Cape, the South African Table Grape Industry expects some flood damage to vineyards - some of the earliest varieties are already budding - and its first table grape crop estimate for the 2023/2024 season will reflect the new reality.
Contrary to the trend in recent years, Peruvian blueberry volumes are currently quite disappointing. "Due to El Niño, Peru has significantly lower production, something that's only now becoming truly clear.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has updated quarantine boundaries for the Oriental Fruit Fly in California to now include, Sacramento County (Rancho Cordova Area), Contra Costa County (Brentwood Area), and Santa Clara County (Santa Clara Area).
At the international online seminar EastFruit, under the auspices of FAO/EBRD and organized by Drone.ua and Sapienza.media, the prospects of using agricultural drones for the cultivation of vegetables and fruits were discussed. Gleb Lesoviy, a GIS specialist from DroneUA, shared crucial insights into this technology.
The apple cultivation in Greece is expected to be lower than usual, in the area that grows quite a chunk of the Greek national production, Matoula Katsika, export and sales manager for Greek fruit exporter A.C. Kissavos, says: “The apple production in our region, and in general for the producing countries of the EU, appear to be reduced for the new season.
Members of National Farmer Labour Federation on Thursday burnt effigy of state agriculture minister Kamal Patel to vent their ire over government’s indifference to the plight of farmers.
Last Saturday (September 23), some areas of Puglia were hit by violent and unforeseen extreme weather conditions, which mainly affected vegetable crops, vineyards and olive groves.
According to industry reports, record-breaking heatwaves in the summer of 2023 is impacting agricultural production across Japan. The average temperature between June and August was approximately 1.76 degrees Celsius higher than the average 1991-2020 average, marking the highest temperature increase on record.
The government of Kosovo said it has approved the allocation of an additional 1.12 million euro ($1.15 million) in compensation to farmers in 14 municipalities, including the capital city of Pristina, Gjakova and Gjilan, for crop losses during 2022.
As the hotter than average weather in Peru is slowing the growth and exports of blueberries, the opposite is happening with the table grape harvest, which has now speeded up the harvest to nearly a month earlier.
Haryana agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Jai Prakash Dalal on Wednesday directed to open e-kshatipoorti portal from October 1 so that cotton producers can register information pertaining to the damage to cotton crop due to pest attack.
The Councilor of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of Andalusia, Carmen Crespo, recently presented the region's official citrus production estimates for the 2023-2024 campaign.