Supplies of pistachios are down approximately 20 percent this year--the first crop year since 2018 to not have a record-breaking crop year. “Initially the 2022 crop was expected to be an on-year but it ended up being an off-year,” says Richard Matoian, president of the American Pistachio Growers.
Big losses from recent storms have some fruit and vegetable growers worried the weather disasters will drive people out of the industry. Horticulture NZ said today’s food price index spike was no surprise because repeatedly “atrocious weather” had hit vegetable supplies.
Supplies of two fresh herbs, rosemary, and thyme, are tighter than usual. “The demand for these herbs at Thanksgiving was higher than normal, and the plants have not recuperated or grown back as quickly because of cold temperatures.
The South African government has, in terms of the Disaster Management Act of 2002, declared a national state of disaster. This should enable an intensive, coordinated response to the impact of floods that are affecting Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, the Northern Cape, and North West.
The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) is preparing to support 490,000 people in Burkina Faso, The Gambia and Mali who were impacted by drought in 2022.
A USDA report released on February 8 delivered a bad forecast: this year’s harvest could be 61% less than last year’s lackluster crop, which was the lowest since World War II.
Farmers, growers, whenua-Māori owners and rural communities will receive an initial $4 million for recovery efforts from Cyclone Gabrielle.MPI is also restarting the national Feed Working Group, a partnership between sector groups and providers to monitor feed availability.
Wheat farmerswant the government to enact measures to reduce the impact of climate change.This follows a prolonged drought blamed on climate change.Hundreds of farmers are counting losses after their crops dried up in the field due to lack of rainfall.
Since 1980, Spain's average available water has decreased by 12 percent and projections indicate that by 2050 there may be a further decrease of between 14 and 40 percent.
In January, the Met Office announced that 2022 had been the sixth warmest year on record, and it looks as if 2023 will be another record-breaker. But though many crops are affected by the summer’s intense heat and drought, apple trees are struggling because they need a period of cold over the winter.
Supplies of corn are snug nationwide. On the East coast, production is underway in Florida though colder temperatures have impacted corn crops there. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, production is coming out of Mexico which has also seen some cold weather and freezing temperatures.
Farmers of 17 villages in Kheri Chopta block relaunched their agitation, alleging the failure of the state government to provide compensation to them for losses to the cotton crop last kharif season.
Reggie Ngcobo, media liaison for the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, saidthat the declaration would enable an intensive, coordinated response to infrastructural losses, such as damages to roads and bridges, while it could alsoallow affected farmers to apply for assistancevia their provincial departments of agriculture.
The inconsistent weather — “global weirding,” as some scientists call it — is becoming all the more common due to climate change, and has disturbed farms across the state, creating smaller yields of particular fruits and an earlier maple tree sap run.
With the prospect of a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the east and the Horn of Africa, Kenya's president is hoping the heavens will finally open with the help of a national day of mass prayer on Tuesday.
The harvest of white cabbage in Uzbekistan was seriously affected due to the abnormal cold in Central Asia in January of this year. As a result, cabbage prices rose sharply, and the export volume decreased by more than twice compared to the same period last year.