After extensive damage caused to kharif crops during the recent unseasonal rains, an assessment has started in Rajasthan for providing relief to the affected farmers. The survey of crops has been launched in Tonk, Bundi and Kota districts in the presence of revenue officials and representatives of insurance companies.
Growers around Seville are having to take preventive measures to protect its 48,000 orange trees from deadly bacteria that have already devastated citrus crops in Asia, Latin America and the US.
This year’s drought caused losses of over EUR 1 bln for the Romanian agricultural sector, with 800,000 of the country’s 5.4 million hectares of crops being impacted.2021 saw a record production of 34 million tons of grain, and prices that were kept up by the war in Ukraine.
Delta farmers have sought direct disbursement of the crop insurance compensation on the lines of the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme.Pointing out that implementation of the scheme under the direct benefit transfer (DBT) method has resulted in the beneficiaries receiving the annual income support amount without any hassle, they want the benefits of the crop insurance scheme also disbursed through the DBT mode.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen fired his agriculture minister over the weekend, following the loss of tens of thousands of hectares of rice paddies and other crops in torrential flooding — a move farm groups welcomed Monday as a sign of more government attention to their plight.
Federal and state agriculture authorities on Sept. 16 established an Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)quarantine in the Fountain Valley area of Orange County, California.
Australian farmers are seeing ‘a terrible waste’ of produce, with truckloads of healthy oranges being dumped across the country. About 1500 semi-trailers full of what seem like perfectly fine oranges have been dumped at sites around the nation, while orange orchards filled with ripe fruit are also being slashed to pieces.
The Agriculture Department has modified the State crop insurance scheme to allow nominees to collect crop loss compensation in the event of the death of the farmer or if he/she is paralysed and bedridden.
Heavy rainfall in India has damaged key summer-sown crops such as rice, soybean, cotton, pulses and vegetables just before harvesting, which could stoke food inflation in Asia's third biggest economy, farmers, traders and industry officials said.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, swaths of standing water are creating access issues in rural Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto counties.In some Florida counties, officials are waiting for water to recede before the damage can be fully assessed.
Maple trees at a Nova Scotia farm took nearly a century to grow but were decimated within just hours during post-tropical storm Fiona. The farm owner says the devastating loss hasn’t even sunk in yet.
Withless than normal rainsduring monsoon and excess rainfall after it, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are staring at heavy losses and an uncertain future.According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data, 67 of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh recorded excess rainfall last week (after September 30).
The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, like many others, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres (809 hectares) of his bone-dry fields.
As the American West grapples with another dangerous heat wave in the midst of a megadrought, official advisories rightly focus on short-term measures to keep people cool and hydrated.
AIADMK leader and legislator R.B. Udhayakumar has called upon the Tamil Nadu government to provide necessary compensation to the maize farmers of Madurai who have been facing heavy crop losses due to attacks by wild boars.
Areas of Boone County are dealing with extreme drought for the first time since 2018. Nearly 10% of the county is experiencing extreme drought, while over half has drought that is categorized as at least severe.