Agricultural producers around the world must adapt to changing weather patterns. Much research has focused on mitigation strategies for crop production, but livestock producers face unique challenges.
Heavy showers since Wednesday night have disrupted normal life and damaged acres of standing crops in many parts of Kalyana Karnataka region and central districts. Overcast conditions with intermittent rains prevailed in these districts till Thursday night.
Drought intensified in many top corn growing states this week. Dry, dusty harvesting conditions create higher fire risks as crops come out of the field. Nationally, 321.6 million acres of crops are experiencing drought.
Uttar Pradesh,which was hit by droughttill August, has been flooded with water due to sudden heavy rains at a time when the southwest monsoon is well into its retreat. Three districts of India’s largest state recorded 10,000 per cent more rainfall than normal in just 24 hours October 5, 2022.
The waters have receded, but the stink lingers. As Emma Reynolds Ezell surveys the damage that a night of 100 mile-per-hour winds wrought on her orange groves, she just can’t get over the stench.
Scientists from Switzerland, India, the Netherlands, France, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the low soil moisture, both at the surface and the root zones for most crops.
Speaking to presspersons after the inauguration of the Jamboo Savari in Dharwad on Tuesday,he said that in the beginning of 2022 he had predicted that there will be heavy rain, crop loss, nature’s fury and communal riots leading to unrest in several places and his predictions came true.
Some Florida citrus growers have lost up to 80% of their crop in the wake of Hurricane Ian, which knocked oranges to the ground with high winds and flooded groves.Ray Royce, executive director of the Highland Circus Growers Association,told The Ledgerin Lakeland that growers were reporting fruit losses of 15% to 80%.
Experts from the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) are advising growers to closely monitor crops for symptoms of the beet moth, which include blackening of the crown and the loss of new leaves.
Rains in Kota division of Rajasthan for the last two days have caused huge damage to the kharif crop. Twelve out of the four districts of the division are expected to be affected due to two days of rain. The farmers want the state government to assess the crop loss and give compensation.
In Gaza, the harvest season of dates starts in late September and lasts until the end of October. The area has about 12,000 dunams (1,200 ha) of agricultural land for palm trees. According to the Agriculture Ministry, about 8,500 dunams are fruitful while the rest are currently unproductive.
Andalucia in southern Spain is home to Europe's largest avocado plantations. These fruits are sought after, but they require special care. Each kilogram of fruit needs 800 liters of water.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is warning residents in the north of the country to be on alert for a greater possibility of cyclones developing and potential flooding in coming months, as the region enters its third La Niña wet season in a row.
The remnants of Hurricane Ian had minimal impact on Perquimans County during the storm’s passing over the region Friday night.The storm’s strong winds — wind gusts reached 35 mph — did spur power outages and block roadways with downed tree limbs.
Farmers across eastern Australia are preparing for the possibility of a “wet drought” and major crop losses as parts of New South Wales and southern Queensland brace formore wet weather and flash flooding.
The Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) has sought 50 per cent fertiliser subsidy for upcoming rabi and kharif crops, claiming that recent monsoon rains and flash floods had destroyed almost 70pc of kharif crops in Sindh which was ready to be harvested and inflicted estimated loss of Rs350 billion to farmers, livestock farm owners.