Farmers across north-east Victoria and the Goulburn Valley say post-floodinvestmentin roads and infrastructure is crucial as they look to bounce back from a wet spring.The Victorian Farmers Federation said while there wascautious optimism following improved weather conditions after a flood-ravaged spring, a number of challenges remained.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the claims paid to the farmers have dropped by 48.7 per cent in the current year. The scheme was launched in 2016, across the country.
Data released by theUnited Nations shows that about 278 million people in Africa, around one- fifth of the continent’s total population, are affected by hunger as of 2021. This figure is about 50 million higher than in 2019.
The situation caused by the drought in citrus cultivation in Corrientes is certainly complex. There's been a significant drop in production that will impact the price of fruit, which is already scarce.
Cattle and crops are in harm’s way as winter weather sweeps across the nation.In the Northern Plains, cattle producers are expecting brutally cold temperatures plunging from -20 to -35 degrees.
“The 2022 season was a trying season for Australian growers,” according to Richard Haynes, National Account Manager at Elders and Director at Potatoes South Australia. “Overall yields were back from the 2021 season which saw an oversupply towards the back end of the year.
Farmers across the country seem to have decided to ditch the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana (PMBFY) for the current Rabi season. Both applications and number of farmers have dipped this season with area under insurance also reporting a sharp dip.
Festive dinner plates may be short on carrots this holiday season owing to crop damage brought on by Hurricane Fiona.The storm brushed past the island as a Category 4 hurricane in September when carrots were growing.
A lettuce disease called Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) has resulted in lettuce shortages across North America. The virus hit the Salinas Valley in California this fall, an area that produces about 50 percent of all the lettuce eaten in the US.
The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) has become the world's number one crop insurance scheme in terms of farmer applications enrolled, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday.
The compounding influence of adverse dry, hot and windy climate patterns slashed wheat yield 4% in Kansas and five other Great Plains states over the past 40 years, Kansas State University researchers reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company - providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop-enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has successfully piloted a weather and parametric index-based crop insurance program in partnership with Salaam Takaful Limited.
With floodwaters receding in the New South Wales central west, the state government says the damage bill is already more than $400 million and is likely to go much higher.In November, communities stretching from Bathurst to Lake Cargelligo were inundated with water, following a devastating rainfall event.
The Tonnemaker family, which operates farms in Woodinville and Royal City in Eastern Washington, has something to celebrate this holiday season despite losing nearly theirentire sweet-cherry crop earlier in 2022.
Cotton farmer Steven Walker stands on a patch of dry soil on his 2,500-acre farm, surveying the fields of bare dirt around him and reflecting on what he saw beforethe “exceptional” drought conditions of 2022.
In 2018, when heavy rains destroyed his soybean crops, Sunil Patidar of Shivpur was not worried as he had insured his crops under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). He filed for mid-seasonal crop loss claim immediately, expecting to use the money for the next crop cycle.