New Zealand produce company Seeka has announced a net profit after tax of $6.5 million, following a difficult year due to Covid-19 and lower yields across the industry.
According to Biosecurity Queensland Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans, the disease has been found in six Queensland farms that are "close to one another," posing an increasing threat to Australia's $1 billion banana industry.
The statewide release of a small wasp to battle the devastating coffee berry borer beetle — which causes millions in Hawai’i coffee crop damage — moved another step closer to taking flight.
Mississippi had more tornadoes in 2022 than any other state — 184 total. Texas was next, with 160, and Alabama had 117.In 2022, most of the tornadoes that occurred in Mississippi were EF0 and EF1, the weakest according to the Enhanced Fujita scale.
Farmers from the Vhembe region are counting their losses, following two weeks of heavy downpours that caused massive damage to their crops, livestock and road infrastructure. All around, rivers are in flood and dams overflowing, while roads and bridges have been swept away.
Nearly 200,000 Hoosiers work in agriculture, and there’s a program open right now to help Indiana farmers this season.The Nature Conservancy in Indiana is working with state and U.S. agencies to offer the “Cover Crop Premium Discount program.”
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare launched a flagship network project ‘National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture’ (NICRA) in 2011.
Tropical Cyclone “Freddy” made landfall along the eastern coastline of Madagascar, just north of Mananjary, around 19:30 SAST on Tuesday early evening. The relatively compact storm was a low-end category 2 tropical cyclone just before making landfall, with winds of 150 km/h and gusts up to 180km/h.
The database includes some of the most common pest threats faced by UK farmers including wireworm, cabbage stem flea beetle and pollen beetle, as well as other globally important species.
After the Indian Institute of Wheat & Barley Research (IIWBR) warning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an advisory saying sudden rise in maximum and minimum temperature during flowering and maturing period may cause loss in wheat and other crops which is ready for harvest.
Almost every kitchen in America will pay the price for the intense heat and drought in Europe this pastsummer. Olive harvests in key countries fell so short that one trade publication questions if the world will have enough to go around by the end of the year.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said that the state’s farmers, who have lost their crops during the sudden unexpected rains, will receive their compensation within a week.
An unusually warm February has raised concerns of fruit growers in Himachal Pradesh as it has led to premature flowering in apple trees which could lead to a poor fruit set.
“The worst that we have ever seen-ever. I cultivated around 20 hectares of cotton crops and almost all of them have been eaten. It is a loss of around Rs10 million. It will take years to recover from this loss,” said Mir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan, adding that,
India has formed a panel to assess how temperature increases will affect its wheat crop after the federal weather agency forecastanother spell of abnormal heatthis year.The country's Meteorological Department issued a warning on Monday that unusually high temperatures were being recorded in much of the country's west and north-west.
Despite South Africa experiencing severe rainfall over the last week – with numerous areas across the country flooded – South Africa is expected to enter El Niño weather patterns by the end of October 2023, bringing drier conditions across the country.