As crop failure becomes a norm, farmers in Maharashtra struggle to get access to crop insurance schemes for which online applications should be submitted."Look at these rotten tomatoes. Forget taking a basketful to sell in the market.
In the midst of this summer’s scorching drought, The Newport Daily News spoke to local farmers at the Aquidneck Growers Market to find out how their agriculture and livestock had been affected by the dry conditions.
Last weekend's rainfall interrupted a long period of drought in Morocco but was not enough to lift growers' morale.Mr. Rida Aghori, an agricultural engineer, has been observing the rainfall deficit situation since 2016, using a dashboard he has compiled from official sources.
Washington’s apple crop is estimated to be down 22 million cases this year compared to last year, from 122.3 million cases to 99.8 million. “It’s probably the smallest crop in eight years,” says Don Roper with Honeybear Marketing.
Few things say summer in America more than buttery corn on the cob, but as summer temperatures climb to unprecedented levels, the future of sweet corn may not be so sweet.
Several groundnut and maize farmers at Kurumalai foothills near Kayathar and the Vaippar river bed in the district have raised complaints that pigs and deers are causing misery to them by damaging the crops, urging the district administration to cull the animals so as to increase the harvest, consisting of maize, cotton, and black gram.
The devastating lack of rain in California has led to US$2 billion in value-added losses for the farm and food processing sector just in a single US state, reveal researchers from the School of Engineering and the Public Policy Institute of California.
According to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Center (KSNDMC) the state incurred a loss of Rs 7,467 crore during the monsoon season, of which agricultural and horticultural crops on 5.74 lakh hectares of land worth Rs 3,569 crore were completely damaged across the state.
It has been a cold and wet spring for one of Australia's stone fruit-growing regions, but there is still exciting news for one producer on the export front.Mattina Fresh National Sales Director, Tom Panna admits the wet weather has meant that export programs will probably not begin until January-February, but it still provides a great opportunity, despite the production challenges.
The Association of Agricultural Cooperatives of Extremadura (Acopaex) confirmed that the region's tomato production has decreased by 30% this season. Domingo Fernandez, the president of Acopaex, said the initial forecasts were production would decrease by 20% as a result of the drought but that the intense summer heat had aggravated the decrease in production.
A three-day lake effect snowstorm that brought several feet of snow to Buffalo, New York and Western New York residents has spurred U.S. president Joe Biden to send federal aid to parts of the state to clean up after the storm.
Significant areas of Ukraine’s corn crop may be left to overwinter in the fields due to difficulties with harvesting and fuel shortages.Corn can potentially be harvested in winter or early spring, but previously only very small areas of the crop would be left to overwinter if farmers wanted to reduce grain moisture.
United Nations (UN) and World Bank reports indicate climate change has negatively affected global food systems, drastically reducing agricultural productivity. But rural communities in developing countrieslike Kenya seem to have found a solution: local and indigenous foods.
Apple growers on Prince Edward Island are ending the 2022 season on a historic low, following post-tropical storm Fiona.Damage from the storm has wiped out virtually all of this year's apple harvest, and with it, a decade of rapid expansion, according to a group representing orchardists.
The global demand for food is expected to increase in the coming decades, but global food production may not be able to keep pace with it.A study published inNaturejournal in October showed a prevalent decline in cropping frequency (CF), crop caloric yield and caloric production.
Losses to California’s ag industry have continued to mount as the state’s drought stretched into a third straight year, according to areportreleased Tuesday byresearchersfrom theSchool of Engineeringand the Public Policy Institute of California.