Heavy rainfall from an active hurricane season has been unfortunate for some farmers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as it has resulted in crop losses and unemployment. Most likely, it will also lead to price increases for vegetables.
The double whammy of scanty rainfall during the monsoon in about 50 districts and now widespread excessive rain and floods post-monsoon has left farmers in Uttar Pradesh with massive crop losses, people aware of the situation said.
Each spring, agricultural helicopter operators head to fields across NZ, their blades churning up warmer air on order to keep frosts from affecting the crops. This season, choppers have been out in full force amongst Waikato’s vineyards and orchards, where the frost was unlike anything seen in recent years.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said unseasonal rains in some parts of the country have affected small farmers and are getting compensation under the government's crop insurance scheme.
This year, many European crops, including mushrooms, suffered from drought and heat. Mushrooms thrive under humid conditions. "Climate change is the biggest challenge in the wild mushroom business, and its impact will only increase in the coming years," begins Corné Verboom of Funghi Funghi.
Diwali is here again. For business and for people it is a festival every Indian looks forward to. But think of the millions of farmers' whose crops are under water, and at many places have been flattened by strong winds or for those who are struggling to collect and dry the moisture-laden harvested crops.
Florida’s orange crop this year will be nearly a third smaller than last year, and one of the smallest in decades afterHurricane Iandevastated citrus groves last month, theU.S. Department of Agriculturesaid Wednesday.
HLB Specialties, an importer of rambutan and large papayas, is dealing with the effects of Tropical Storm Julia and its aftermath and informing clients that orders will most likely be affected.
The Papaya Mealybug is a pest that was first detected in Uganda in 2012; a small polyphagous sap sucking insect that attacks leaves and stems to suck on the sap. In the end, it will kill plants like the pawpaw.
Julio Bacete, the president of the National Garlic Table, calculates that the sowing area, to date, may have fallen by 15 to 20% over the previous campaign; a trend that has been confirmed by the National Association of Garlic Producers and Marketers (Anpca) and by the National Garlic Table.
"On the morning of Friday October 7, we had the worst frost in the three-generation history of our orchard that has destroyed approximately 90% of our crop. Temperatures plummeted to -5C on our orchard."
The lack of water has already left its mark on Malaga's countryside. The Provincial Association of Irrigators of Malaga (Aprema) has stated that this year's tomato crops have fallen because, after the drought decree was approved, many producers in the Guadalhorce Valley decided not to buy tomato plants.
According to preliminary estimates by the Special Harvest and Quality Evaluation (BEE), this year's potato harvest will be considerably smaller than those of previous years.
Following a dry autumn, a dry winter and a spring with little rain, a summer of record heatwaves and drought engulfed Spain. Doñana National Park, one of Europe’s most important wetlands, is a critical wintering spot and stopover point for birds migrating between Africa and Europe.
Sylvia Colbert watched and waited for the banana and 50-foot bamboo trees on her property to snap beneath the pounding rains and roaring winds of Hurricane Ian.
Teagasc has confirmed that Irish potato yields have declined year on year by approximately 10 to 15% in 2022. The area of main crop grown in 2022 came in at 7,400ha. There were a number of factors that came into play which heavily impacted on this year’s yields.