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.
Amid one of the most cataclysmic floods in the history of Pakistan, the country's most crucial challenges include the impacts of climate change, writes Arshia Malik, a columnist and an educationist in South-South Research Initiative (SSRI).
The prevailing dry spell in Kangra region has adversely affected the wheat crop. Farmers in the Changar area, which comprises hilly tracts around Jawalamukhi, Dehra, Thural and Sullah, are dependent on rainfall for irrigating their crops.
Unexpected rainfall in various states has harmed the ready-for-harvesting crops such as rice, soya bean, cotton, pulses, and vegetables at a time whenIndiais facing a likely food grain shortfall due to decreased sowing of Kharif crops, particularly paddy.
Losses mount as California officially wraps up its third year of drought. The Golden State suffered a $1.7 billion loss in crop revenues for 2022, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of California, Merced.
Nearly one-sixth area of the total acreage under cotton in Punjab this year suffered losses due to excessive rains and whitefly infestation.According to the post-harvest crop loss surveys conducted by the district authorities, Fazilka and Muktsar were worst hit as the cash crop on over 97,000 acres was damaged in these two districts.
“I won’t ever recover what I invested,” said 67-year-old Kalua Mehmood, a sugarcane farmer in Shahabpur, a village in western Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. Owing to scarce rainfall, his sugarcane farm will deliver a poor harvest this year.
In Trawal, the Olifants River Valley, where the grape harvest started last week, they have lost half of their Flame and Tawny grapes because of thunderstorms and heavy rain over the weekend, says Nico Louw, head of marketing at Paarl-based Exsa which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Recent weather conditions experienced across South Africa have prompted the industry body SATI to expedite thereview of the current crop estimate for the 2022/2023 season. Whilst a subsequent review has typically occurred in January, a decision has been taken to do so in December.
The main Peruvian seedless grape season started in week 38, but it is pretty much a year-round grape producer in some varieties and there is always something loading.
Although this week's heavy rainfall was welcomed by some Western Cape farmers, others have been hit hard by it. According to Agri Western Cape CEO Jannie Strydom, between 20 and 110 mm were reported across the province on Tuesday.