A broken levee is having a huge impact on California's farming communities in the Watsonville and Salinas areas. This region is estimated to grow about one-third of California's strawberries.
Banana availability in South Africa has tightened as a result of the flooding in the southern parts of Mozambique last month.Up to 75% of the bananas sold at Gauteng’s municipal markets come from Mozambique and Eswatini.
The atmospheric river rains that have hit California this week are, for the moment, halting the harvest of our kumquats. “Kumquats cannot be picked when it’s raining because they have tiny pores which can absorb the surface dust into the skin of the fruit, causing the fruit to rot in a few days,” says Matt Pfefferof Fresh Fruit Sales Nevada.
Spain is the world's second-largest producer of artichokes, behind only Italy, and Murcia leads its production by concentrating approximately 40% of the total national harvest, according to the latest MAPA data.
Heavy rains in Peru are challenging the wrap-up of the Peruvian ginger season. “There is little ginger underground and the ginger that remains is an old crop,” says Gino Neira, co-founder of Inkawald, a family-owned company based in Peru.
Slovakia has joined the already extensive list of countries that have officially detected the tomato virus (ToBRFV) in their territory.The country's ONPF recently informed the EPPO Secretariat about this first finding of ToBRFV in a 2.5-hectare greenhouse that produced tomato fruits (Solanum lycopersicum) in the municipality of Levice.
Climate extremes are reducing crop yields with hotter, drier growing seasons posing challenges to farmers worldwide according to arelease.Growing seasons have been getting hotter and drier between the years 1980 to 2009 according to a newstudyfrom an international team led by researchers at Aalto University.
The effects of climate change are projected to reduce farming production by 50 per cent in the next 30 years, according to a report by European Environmental Agency (EEA).The report focused on important climate change problems facing agriculture in the European Union (EU) and its position for the years ahead.
With sudden change in atmosphere, Sangareddy and Vikarabad districts witnessed heavy rain with hailstorm on Thursday afternoon.According to sources, there was a hailstorm for about half-an-hour in Kohir mandal and parts of Zaheerabad.
Climate change is altering precipitation patterns across the globe. In the upper Midwestern part of the United States, abnormal precipitation events are projected to increase. In recent years, the Midwest has experienced a 37% increase in ‘very heavy precipitation’ events (defined as the heaviest 1% of all daily events) according to Karl et al., 2009.
Spain has officially entered a period of long-term drought, owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years, and likely faces another year of heatwaves and forest fires.
The disproportionately low rainfall received in the northern regions of the country is likely to lead to a drought, which could leave thousands of people at risk of starvation due to crop failure.
After storms in December and January caused over $200 million in crop damage from wind, rain and floods, damage from recent flooding from the Pajaro and Salinas rivers in Monterey County has caused hundreds of millions of dollars more in losses, theCalifornia Strawberry Commissionreports.
After adevastating crop loss in early Marchthis year, Maharashtra farmers received another blow as heavy rains and hailstormson March 16-17, 2023, flattened their ready-to-harvest crops.
The onion shortage in the European market has made for an entirely different start to the import season. "I've not experienced this very often in my onion trading career. The 2018/2019 season was also memorable, but now it's even more extreme; the madness has begun very early," begins Jan van der Lans.
Officine Mingozzi implemented a flame treatment to solve the woolly aphid problem, using their own machines.Leonhard Losch's Azienda Agricola boidinamica Friulana, located in Chiopris Visconte (Udine), has been applying this technique successfully since 2017.