Tripura has introduced its first-ever livestock insurance scheme, under which the government will bear 85 per cent of the premium cost, while livestock farmers will have to pay only the remaining 15 per cent, Animal Resources Development Minister Sudhangshu Das said.
A nationwide cyclospora outbreak has severely reduced American consumer demand for fresh greens, forcing some major agricultural producers to destroy healthy crops while driving a surge in business for small local farms as thousands fall ill across the country.
A study commissioned by Lloyd’s, the London-based insurance and reinsurance marketplace, found that farmers, fishers and tourism workers in three hurricane-exposed Caribbean countries — Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada — are left to replace lost boats, crops, livestock and equipment themselves because they lack insurance.
Wildfires in France have caused damage to homes, businesses and forests, and now they threaten to damage the French wine industry.
Record payouts, repeat drought conditions and ageing housing stock are reshaping how property insurers approach renewal risk.
Farmers fear heavy crop losses as drought and white grub attacks dry up and rot sugarcane fields, prompting demands for pest-resistant, drought-tolerant varieties.
Rokstone, an international specialty re/insurance managing general agent (MGA), has announced that its Agriculture division has entered into a new capacity agreement with AXA XL, introducing an excess livestock risks facility with limits of up to USD $20 million.
Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka joined a BJP drought study team in staging a protest alongside farmers in a pigeon pea field at Karekal village in Ballari taluk on Thursday, citing severe distress caused by deficient rainfall and alleging the state government’s inadequate response.
A new study on how rising temperatures will affect rice production inScience Advancescompares 214 observations from field-warming experiments with seven crop models, revealing modelled estimates for yield reductions from 1°C of global warming were roughly half those of the real-world observed experiments (3.8 percent instead of 8.1 percent).
Weeks of heavy monsoon rain and upstream flows from northern rivers have damaged crops largely across parts of Bogura, leaving thousands of farmers facing steep financial losses while government relief remains limited, according to farmers, agriculture officials and district authorities.
The Angetyongpang Development Board and the Nagaland Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services rolled out a new livestock insurance scheme at the Mongsenyimti Village Community Hall. This initiative covers the entire 24 Angetyongpang Constituency.
Farmerline has announced a support package for rice farmers in the Weta and Avalavi enclaves in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region.
Local farmers are welcoming help as the U.S. Department of Agriculture announces $35 million for feral hog control in several Louisiana parishes, including Concordia, Madison and Tensas, just ahead of harvest season.
Bionema Group Limited has announced a major advance in the development of a new patent-pending fungal bioherbicide designed to control difficult-to-manage weeds in major agricultural and horticultural crops.
The mechanization level of the country’s rice farms is on track to reach 3.40 horsepower per hectare (hp/ha) by 2031, further lowering labor costs and improving the sector’s productivity, according to the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech).
The party leader alleges coalition government has shifted the burden of insurance premiums onto farmers and calls for ₹500 crore allocation to MARKFED for tobacco procurement and price stabilisation.