Over 4.25 lakh hectares in villages along the Punjab, Haryana and Pakistan borders of Rajasthan are under cotton cultivation. However, pink bollworms have been eating into the profits of cotton farmers for the past few years. This year, it has taken a more serious turn.
Farmers in western Massachusetts are busy harvesting their crops but they said their yields have been heavily impacted by major rainstorms, the latest of which hit the region last week.
Due to the heavy rain that fell in Tangalle area in the last few days, a large number of paddy fields that were about to be harvested were flooded.The Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera recently engaged in an observation tour of the area to get a firsthand look at the damaged paddy fields and discussed with the farmers who own the damaged fields.
Officials have asked the public to watch for feral pigs in eastern Florence County and perhaps neighboring Marinette County, especially during hunting season.Feral pigs descend from domestic swine that have escaped into the wild.
This year, many of those trees are bare, but farmers and apple experts are still urging people to visit orchards around the state — even those that can’t offer a pick-your-own apple option.
In Bolivia’s highlands, where life's rhythm largely follows the agricultural calendar, a crop emergency is unfolding and pushing families to the brink of hunger, Save the Children said.
As much as 59.15 per cent of the average soyabean production in Nagpur district stands affected adversely due to fluctuations in rainfall and pest attack and disease. Bhiwapur is the worst affected tehsil, while Ramtek tehsil has suffered the lowest damage, as per the circle-wise survey report of the Agriculture Department.
The state agricultural department has developed a crop compensation plan of Rs 38.06 crore for farmers impacted by the ethnic violence, five months after Manipur slid into ethnic warfare.
Cotton farmers across the High Plains and Rolling Plains of Texas fight the rain, wind, and blowing sand of spring to get the crop in the ground and watch it grow. But too often lately they are watching it wither.
Missouri continues to have the worst corn in the nation after a dry summer leaves 39% of the state’s corn crop in poor/very poor shape.After a dry summer, Missouri corn farmers continue to struggle with corn quality as harvest continues and autumn begins.
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.