The compounding influence of adverse dry, hot and windy climate patterns slashed wheat yield 4% in Kansas and five other Great Plains states over the past 40 years, Kansas State University researchers reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company - providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop-enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has successfully piloted a weather and parametric index-based crop insurance program in partnership with Salaam Takaful Limited.
With floodwaters receding in the New South Wales central west, the state government says the damage bill is already more than $400 million and is likely to go much higher.In November, communities stretching from Bathurst to Lake Cargelligo were inundated with water, following a devastating rainfall event.
The Tonnemaker family, which operates farms in Woodinville and Royal City in Eastern Washington, has something to celebrate this holiday season despite losing nearly theirentire sweet-cherry crop earlier in 2022.
Cotton farmer Steven Walker stands on a patch of dry soil on his 2,500-acre farm, surveying the fields of bare dirt around him and reflecting on what he saw beforethe “exceptional” drought conditions of 2022.
In 2018, when heavy rains destroyed his soybean crops, Sunil Patidar of Shivpur was not worried as he had insured his crops under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). He filed for mid-seasonal crop loss claim immediately, expecting to use the money for the next crop cycle.
California produces 80 percent of the world's almonds but this year production decreased across the state. One grower says not only did the drought and supply chain issues factor in but also inflation.
A significant drop in temperature earlier this month in the European Union caused only minor damage to some winter crops, while it allowed significant improvement in frost tolerance elsewhere, the EU's crop monitor MARS said on Monday.
The 2022 growing season started off with ideal conditions. Then the summer turned hot and dry, hampering crop development. Farmers hoped for rain, but when storm clouds finally rolled in, they dropped as much as 20 inches of rain in a matter of days, flooding fields and rotting potatoes.
The Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board has taken steps to grant Rs. 657 million in compensation to farmers who suffered crop damage during the 2021-22 Maha season, using funds allocated by the Government.
Most of the farmers availing agricultural loans are not covered under the crop insurance scheme - Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana of the union government.Though guidelines were issued for the credit providing banks to incorporate the farmers into the crop insurance scheme, many banks abstained from following this recommendation.
Kansas State University researchershave published a study in the prestigious scientific journal,Nature Communications, quantifying the negative impacts that the triple punch of heat, drought and wind has had on wheat yields in Kansas and the surrounding region over the past 40 years.
The cold spell that has gripped Taiwan over the last few days has caused an estimated NT$17.58 million (US$568,435) in agricultural losses as of Tuesday, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA).
Arrangements have been made to distribute compensation of 457 million rupees to the farmers who suffered crop damage during the 2021-22 Maha season by the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board using funds allocated by the government.
According to one major Lincolnshire supplier, extreme temperatures have hit this year's Brussels sprout crop hard. Record-breaking summer highs, leading to drought, and now, sub-zero temperatures have wreaked havoc.
As a result of the lack of rain in the Andes, the two main reservoirs of Piura, Poechos and San Lorenzo, have less than 30% of water, which is causing some concern to mango producers.