Australian cotton crop is predicted to fall short of last year's record result of 5.6 million bales, with weather conditions impacting yields in New South Wales and Queensland. Cotton Australia GM Michael Murray confirmed around 85% of cotton crop has now been picked.
While most continents face the wrath of devastating hurricanes and typhoons, Europe is fiercely battling drought. El Niño has indeed come back. “El Niño is normally associated with record-breaking temperatures at the global level. Whether this will happen in 2023 or 2024 is not yet known, but it is, I think, more likely than not,”says Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The Turkish cherry season didn’t go as smoothly as exporters had initially expected, says Mehmet Çakmak, sales and marketing manager for Turkish fresh produce exporter Ani Tarim: “Impacts of unfavorable weather conditions were at large-scale in many European cherry producing countries, which left damages in quality and lowered the availability for early-mid-season yields.
The scientists of the Entomology Division of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) have reported occurrence of devastating insect ‘Fall armyworm’ in ginger crop during June 2023 at the experimental farm of Spices Research Centre, BARI, Shibganj, Bogura.
Local farmers have been dealing with a couple of pests that have been causing crop damage over the past couple of weeks.According to Agriculture Saskatchewan, producers have reported grasshoppers and gophers are causing issues.
Farmers in saffron rich Pampore area in south Kashmir's Pulwama district are facing a peculiar problem due to the presence of myriads of porcupines in their saffron farms, sprawling over hundreds of Kanals.
The heavy rainfall in Spain meant, among other things, that the water content of the fruit was so high that it arrived in Germany partly ripe to overripe and rotted more quickly, as Philipp Lang, managing director of Früchte Lang from Hengersberg, tells us.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Georgia, there were 5.9 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sunday, July 2, 2023. Precipitation ranged from no rain to 2.5 inches.
Senators are pushing for the national government to introduce crop insurance for North Rift maize farmers to cushion them from crop losses.The development follows a petition by Hilary Kerich, a farmer in Bomet, that highlighted the disastrous effects of the maize lethal necrosis, which has left farmers in the area staring at crop losses running into millions.
Huge quantities of chillies were destroyed due to heavy rains resulting in heavy losses for Moradabad chilli farmers."After taking a loan, I sowed chilli crops in my field and watered them timely. also applied sprayed medicines so that the crop do not get destroyed.
On a Monday morning in June, a few dozen peach pickers from the Mexican city of Guadalajara strode down rows of trees, in an orchard near Byron.They walked one to a side, covering each row of the grove efficiently, with blue bags slung across their chests to collect the fruit, chatted in Spanish and unloaded their hauls into a large bin on a trailer hitched to a Chevy pickup at one end of the grove.
Apowerful derechowith 100 mph winds slammed into the Midwest on Thursday night,causing damage to corn and other agricultural crops inIllinois.Senior Meteorologist Andrew Pritchard, with Nutrien Ag Solutions, was in Farmer City when the weather overtook the area at an extremely fast-moving speed.
For two weeks now, tasty cherries have been back in farm stalls along country roads in the Netherlands. "They're of outstanding quality this year, but there are fewer kilos. That's due to frost and poor pollination because of the wet weather during the flowering period.
Over 16,900 farmers have been awaiting compensation for their crop loss for the past several months, despite having an insurance cover under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY).
Queensland’s ongoing management of Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4) will be led by the banana industry from 1 July 2023. Panama TR4 was first discovered in Queensland in the Tully Valley in 2015.
According to initial estimates released today at Interpera, the international pear congress held in Lleida, the forthcoming European pear harvest will be one of the smallest in the last 10 years, with a forecast around 1,900,000 tonnes.