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.
Following a challenging growing season for the onion production team at Balle Bros., they are now facing an even more challenging harvest.For most of the summer there has been more rain than normal.
A recent drop in agricultural production due to bad weather conditions has triggered a sharp rise in vegetable prices in parts of Jordan. President of the Jordan Valley Farmers Union Adnan Khaddam said that vegetable prices are now at least 50 per cent higher.
Producers must assess the damages caused by the recent hailstorm that covered the municipality of Sanlúcar with ice. The Meteorological Agency (AEMET) activated the yellow alert because of the storm in the morning.
The atmospheric temperature in the north of Moldova dropped to – 5-6°C during the day and to – 9-11°C at night this week. It was a few degrees warmer in the south. However, there is a risk of losing 30-40% of flower buds on apricot plantations.
The weather in Argentina continued to be challenging for crop production in early February 2023. The first full week of February, week-ending Feb. 11, was one of the driest and the fourth hottest in 30+ years for Argentina’s major soybean production regions, according to data fromWeatherTrends360.
University of Florida economists have refined the estimate of agricultural losses due to Hurricane Ian: $1.03 billion. This is an estimate of the total value of seasonal crops, livestock, nursery and aquaculture products that will not be harvested or marketed as a result of the category 4 storm.
Next season’s avocado crop has already been extensively damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle, say Northland growers.Maungatapere avocado grower Mike Eagles said next year’s avocado harvest was “already hopeless” because of the damage the fruit and trees had sustained from rain and wind.
“Can climate change cause widespread unrest among Pakistan’s farmers, enough to lead to civil conflict, or violence short of it?” Shahbaz Ali, a farmer in Ghotki district in Pakistan’s Sindh province, asked himself when we spoke last year.
Dry winter weather conditions could cause some economic concern for this years wheat production.The Texas Panhandle is the largest wheat producing region in the state of Texas.
Sudden rise in day temperature has the wheat growers of the state worried.Agriculture experts are of the view that the rise in the temperature at this stage is harmful to the wheat as it could affect the growth of the grain.