In a huge blow to farmers, the recent heavy rain and floodwaters have damaged paddy crop spread on 63,873 acres in the district. As per the block-wise breakup of crop loss, paddy in 9,062 acres were damaged in Bilaspur block, the highest in all seven blocks of the district.
Typhoon "Egay" has left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) leaving a death toll of 13 people and P58 million in crop damage in its wake, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Friday.
As Vermont farmers continue to assess flood damage, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials encourage them to report their losses.More than 230 farms have reported damage to fields, crops and forest, according John Roberts, Vermont’s state executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency.
Typhoon Doksuri caused at least NT$108.94 million (US$3.74 million) in agricultural losses as of the latest estimate Sunday evening, with bananas, watermelons and guavas the hardest hit crops, according to Council of Agriculture (COA) statistics.
A little over a week ago, northwestern Pennsylvania — including Union City, Corry, Columbus and Spring Creek — was pummeled with golf ball-sized chunks of ice as hail accompanied a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning that tore through the area.
The State government will conduct a survey to assess crop loss due to heavy and continuous rainfall in the last two weeks and complete it within a week, Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda has said.
Over the last two years, drought, frost and now flooding have hit Connecticut farms, and as weather-related disasters become more common, the farmers are pushing Congress to fix a crop insurance program they say hasn’t worked for them.
The continuing dry conditions are affecting crop yield potential of Saskatchewan crops.The Saskatchewan Crop Report says harvest has begun in the driest areas – the west central and southwest regions.
The estimated damage and losses to agriculture due to Super Typhoon Egay has increased as the Department of Agriculture (DA) gathered more data on the extent of the weather disturbance’s onslaught to the crop sector.
A delegation of the Punjab BJP on Thursday met Governor Banwarilal Purohit here on the flood issue, highlighting that the AAP government allegedly “failed” to take measures on time despite warnings of heavy rain to prevent losses suffered by farmers.
While the damage was not widespread, there has been some severe hail damage in different parts of Ohio in July.Soybean plants were at approximately the R2 (full flower) growth stage. Corn was at late vegetative stages to early reproductive stages (R1).
Typhoon Doksuri swept into China’s south-eastern Fujian province on Friday, bringing heavy rain and violent gusts of wind that shook power lines, uprooted trees and forced factories and shopping centres to shut.
Scouts on an annual North Dakota crop tour on Thursday projected spring wheat yields in the top-producing state will average 47.4 bushels per acre as farmers grapple with an expanding drought.
Heavy rains in Nagpur in Maharashtra caused waterlogging in the city, while state deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met local authorities to check on crop loss in many parts of the district, an official said on Thursday.
Despite the chatter and hustle of a dozen or so workers, the production line at Flamm Orchards in deep southern Illinois sits mostly barren this summer because a cold spell in late December knocked out a vast majority of the 300 acre farm’s peach crop.
Two tornadoes touched down as storms ripped through southern Ontario last Thursday, according to theNorthern Tornadoes Project.A survey team investigated reported damage around South Buxton in Chatham-Kent and in Petrolia, Ont. The NTP team says they found evidence of a tornado in each location.