California produces 80 percent of the world's almonds but this year production decreased across the state. One grower says not only did the drought and supply chain issues factor in but also inflation.
A significant drop in temperature earlier this month in the European Union caused only minor damage to some winter crops, while it allowed significant improvement in frost tolerance elsewhere, the EU's crop monitor MARS said on Monday.
The 2022 growing season started off with ideal conditions. Then the summer turned hot and dry, hampering crop development. Farmers hoped for rain, but when storm clouds finally rolled in, they dropped as much as 20 inches of rain in a matter of days, flooding fields and rotting potatoes.
The Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board has taken steps to grant Rs. 657 million in compensation to farmers who suffered crop damage during the 2021-22 Maha season, using funds allocated by the Government.
Most of the farmers availing agricultural loans are not covered under the crop insurance scheme - Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana of the union government.Though guidelines were issued for the credit providing banks to incorporate the farmers into the crop insurance scheme, many banks abstained from following this recommendation.
Kansas State University researchershave published a study in the prestigious scientific journal,Nature Communications, quantifying the negative impacts that the triple punch of heat, drought and wind has had on wheat yields in Kansas and the surrounding region over the past 40 years.
The cold spell that has gripped Taiwan over the last few days has caused an estimated NT$17.58 million (US$568,435) in agricultural losses as of Tuesday, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA).
Arrangements have been made to distribute compensation of 457 million rupees to the farmers who suffered crop damage during the 2021-22 Maha season by the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board using funds allocated by the government.
According to one major Lincolnshire supplier, extreme temperatures have hit this year's Brussels sprout crop hard. Record-breaking summer highs, leading to drought, and now, sub-zero temperatures have wreaked havoc.
As a result of the lack of rain in the Andes, the two main reservoirs of Piura, Poechos and San Lorenzo, have less than 30% of water, which is causing some concern to mango producers.
Amid one of the most cataclysmic floods in the history of Pakistan, the country's most crucial challenges include the impacts of climate change, writes Arshia Malik, a columnist and an educationist in South-South Research Initiative (SSRI).
The prevailing dry spell in Kangra region has adversely affected the wheat crop. Farmers in the Changar area, which comprises hilly tracts around Jawalamukhi, Dehra, Thural and Sullah, are dependent on rainfall for irrigating their crops.
Unexpected rainfall in various states has harmed the ready-for-harvesting crops such as rice, soya bean, cotton, pulses, and vegetables at a time whenIndiais facing a likely food grain shortfall due to decreased sowing of Kharif crops, particularly paddy.
Losses mount as California officially wraps up its third year of drought. The Golden State suffered a $1.7 billion loss in crop revenues for 2022, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of California, Merced.
Nearly one-sixth area of the total acreage under cotton in Punjab this year suffered losses due to excessive rains and whitefly infestation.According to the post-harvest crop loss surveys conducted by the district authorities, Fazilka and Muktsar were worst hit as the cash crop on over 97,000 acres was damaged in these two districts.
“I won’t ever recover what I invested,” said 67-year-old Kalua Mehmood, a sugarcane farmer in Shahabpur, a village in western Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. Owing to scarce rainfall, his sugarcane farm will deliver a poor harvest this year.