In Trawal, the Olifants River Valley, where the grape harvest started last week, they have lost half of their Flame and Tawny grapes because of thunderstorms and heavy rain over the weekend, says Nico Louw, head of marketing at Paarl-based Exsa which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Recent weather conditions experienced across South Africa have prompted the industry body SATI to expedite thereview of the current crop estimate for the 2022/2023 season. Whilst a subsequent review has typically occurred in January, a decision has been taken to do so in December.
The main Peruvian seedless grape season started in week 38, but it is pretty much a year-round grape producer in some varieties and there is always something loading.
Although this week's heavy rainfall was welcomed by some Western Cape farmers, others have been hit hard by it. According to Agri Western Cape CEO Jannie Strydom, between 20 and 110 mm were reported across the province on Tuesday.
There were high hopes for the Greek grape season of 2022, but George Saliaris-Fasseas, founder of Greek Grape Company, states it all turned ugly in September, thanks to the weather: “Before the grape season started, we were extremely enthusiastic.
According to the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA), the Canadian crop hail industry provided a record-setting $10 billion in coverage as producers purchased more insurance in the wake of increasing input costs, inflation and strong crop prices.
Up to 60 per cent of the Sunraysiaregion's dried fruit worth millions of dollars could be lost as intense wet weather has led to an outbreak of downy mildew.Stretching across south-west New South Wales and north-westVictoria, Sunraysia grows 98 per cent of the country's dried fruit exports.
Farmers in Maharashtra are yet to receive Rs 516.34 crore of the compensation for crop loss during the Kharif season. A chunk of this amount is due from two public sector insurance companies, which are yet to deposit the amount in farmers’ accounts.
The number of insects splattered on vehicle number plates in Britain fell by 64% between 2004 and 2022, according to a survey.Each summer citizen scientists record the number of insect splats on their number plates on an app after a journey.
Researchers at the Horticultural Crops Production and Genetic Improvement Research (HPCGIR) Unit in Corvallis, Oregon, are developing new cultivars of not just blueberry, but also blackberry, red raspberry, black raspberry and strawberry to meet the needs of growers in the Pacific Northwest.
In marketing year (MY) 2021/22, citrus yields decreased due to frost during the winter in the Valparaíso, Metropolitana, and O’Higgins regions. FAS Santiago estimates lemon production to decrease by 30 percent to 140,000 metric tons (MT) in MY 2021/22 and to bounce back to 200,000 metric tons in MY 2022/23, assuming normal yields.
Texas is currently experiencing the worst drought since 2011, which cost the state’s economy about $7.62 billion in direct agricultural losses and nearly $17 billion in total losses.
Athirdof Ukraine’s corn crop is still standing in fields as winter sets in, adding further strain on its vital farming sector.Growers have been hit by a series of hurdles: Record autumn rainfall muddied fields.
Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually from lost healthy food consumption and associated diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers, according to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The Unión de Uniones de Agricultores y Ganaderos stressed the serious situation that many industrial tomato producers are facing, as their production has fallen, on average, by 60%.
Fruit Particularly apple production in Kashmir valley this season has failed to cheer up growers as their produce was sold at lower rates than last year.Faced with huge losses, apple farmers have now sought central government intervention.