UK winter vegetable production is feeling the effects of the severe cold snap which hit the country in December last year and there seem to be quite a few quality issues in produce currently being harvested.
Somnath farmers are unhappy despite the fact that their saffron mangoes blooming on time. In the past few days, the abundant dew has turned the blooms black. Due to the strange weather, Gir is witnessing a double season.
Following the ample rainstorms, lettuce supplies could be short again this spring. “The biggest challenge is currently working around the atmospheric river of rain we’ve been receiving in California.
Union Agriculture Minister, Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar in New Delhi today cleared pending claims of Kharif 2021 of the farmers of Barmer District of Rajasthan. He decided to make full payment of the pending claims of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in the district.
A Canadian analyst thinks the market is ‘shrugging off’ threats to crops in South America, the United States and Ukraine.Two grain market factors are weighing on Bruce Burnett’s mind as the calendar flips to 2023.
Wildlife damage is one of the more frustrating sources of crop injury in Illinois — and one that unfortunately lacks a good solution.Duane Friend, University of Illinois Extension educator, says that as deer and raccoon populations have increased, so has their impact on crops.
Heat and drought are the utmost limiting abiotic factors that pose a major threat to food security and agricultural production, and are exacerbated by "extreme and rapid" climate change, according to a new paper inCABI Reviews.
Due to a sudden temperature drop since Monday, Nashik grape farmers are resorting to bonfires and drip irrigation at their vineyards throughout the night. If the minimum drops below 5oC, the ready to harvest grapes will develop cracks.
In the Netherlands, the late December frost damaged Brussels sprouts more than initially thought. "There are 25 to 30% rejections across the board," says Andre Noordhoek, who grows Brussels sprouts and markets his and fellow growers' produce, mainly to exporters.
It’s intense and it’s too early to tell what this will do. That seems to be the sentiment from growers about the effects of the sizeable rainstorms California is seeing, enough to cause evacuation orders, flooding and more.
The exceptionally hot temperatures of last autumn and this winter created imbalances in certain horticultural productions in the Region of Murcia. Seasonal crops are ahead of schedule and fruit trees are blooming on time not only in January; but also in November.
Weather conditions are affecting supplies of strawberries across the U.S. Starting in Florida, supplies are currently down 20-30 percent compared to the year-to-year average.“We are picking berries out of Florida right now but it’s not the volumes we’d like to see,” says Jim Grabowski of Well Pict.
The floods that ravaged southern China in May were the fifth-worst natural global catastrophe last year, but only a fraction of the losses were insured, revealing a huge insurance gap in the world’s second-largest economy and the threat posed by climate change.
The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated.Three-quarters of crops require pollination but the populations ofmany insects are in sharp decline.
It is now beyond doubt that climate change is largely due to human activities. Therefore, any discussion on climate change includes human contribution to the same and its effects on life on earth.
Goulburn Valley growers hit by the pre-Christmas storm are now working out how to save their trees from pests and diseases at minimal cost.A hailstorm stripped trees of fruit and leaves on some properties and pock-marked the fruit on others, causing an estimated damage bill of $50 million of farm gate value.