The Western Cape is receiving larger amounts of summer rainfall than usual just as the Department of Water and Sanitation has notified the public that the average level of Western Cape dams has fallen below 50%.
Farmers in Naugaon village, Alwar in Rajasthan, report severe losses every season due to havoc caused byagriculture pests and diseases. During a ground visit, farmers claimed that warming temperatures have worsened the destruction of crops by pests brought out by climate change.
This year’s temperature swings has been a cause for concern among west Niagara’s wineries and grape growers.According to winemakers, production hasn’t been impacted, but the yo-yoing weather is not ideal for grapes.
A cold snap is on the way for the Okanagan, with temperatures to cool down as early as Tuesday afternoon.And according to Global BC’s Chief Meteorologist, Mark Madryga, it will be even colder as the week progresses.
Recent floods have taken a heavy toll on South African farmers who have reported major losses on their farms.Farmers across the country are reporting substantial damage to farms after days of heavy downpours which led to farm floods.
TheFebruary edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Global outlook for North Africa- describes a cereal season marked by drought in large parts of the Maghreb, where cereal yield potentials have been negatively impacted.
Cyclone Gabrielle has hit New Zealand farmers hard, some have lost everything. Some apple growers has just started the harvest and the orchards were full of trees with apples waiting to be harvested, many have nothing left.
The weather has been mostly dry over Punjab and Haryana since February 1, and experts are worried that this may have an impact on our wheat crops.This dry spell can be attributed to the absence of significant western disturbances or storm systems originating from the Caspian Sea and moving across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, the meteorological office said on Sunday.
After the two days of bad weather on 8 and 9 February that devastated numerous farms in Sicily, a difficult damage assessment has begun. Water is slowly beginning to drain away from fields and greenhouses, but unfortunately, in some areas, it will still take days before being physically able to move into the land.
First, because of the high temperatures recorded in autumn and the warm start of winter, and now because of the persistent low temperatures recorded since two weeks ago, which have created an unusual scenario that is resulting in shortages of all fruit and vegetable products.
The climate continues its relentless attack on the 2022/23 farming season, and last week’s high temperatures complicated the state of soybean and corn even more. But that’s not all: frosts expected in the coming days could cause more production loss, which would make this season’s harvest one of the lowest in 15 years.
With farmers not happy with the existing crop-cutting experiments (CCEs) for yield estimates of paddy crops for insurance under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the state government has decided to go for technology intervention to overcome various limitations in the current system of crop yield estimation in the insurance units.
“It was around seven in the evening. During a routine inspection in my field, I discovered a herd of seven-eight wild boars. They were big, some 2.5-3 feet in height. I was scared to chase them down as boars are known to attack people.
As New Zealanders cope with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand Apples and Pears member engagement manager Anna Lambourne said many members were displaced and in Tairawhiti and Hawke’s Bay evacuation centres. Apple and Pears’ first priority was staff wellbeing and welfare.
Widespread rain in the north has retarded the lemon harvest in Letsitele, Hoedspruit, Onderberg while Schoemanskloof, west of Nelspruit, reportedly saw some of the most flooding.
Last August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in a grower's in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth of fruit in ditches on his neighbor’s property.