Agriculture is a key contributor to sustaining life and providing development to our ecosystems.For this industry to continue providing adequate food sources, it needs to be protected from outside threats that could interfere with the efficiency and the quality of our food.
Florida citrus growers got off easy following Hurricane Nicole, which hit the Sunshine State on Nov. 10, compared to the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian in late September.
Climate and weather variability pose increasing risks to farmers. As world leaders gather in Egypt at COP27 to address the climate crisis, the University of California Cooperative Extension and the USDA California Climate Hub are launching new web-based tools to provide farmers with locally relevant and crop-specific information to make production decisions that reduce risk.
In marketing year (MY) 2022/23, Post estimates that avocado production will decrease by 18.2 percent from MY 2021/22, totaling 180,000 metric tons (MT) due to frost. Chilean domestic avocado consumption will reach 105,000 MT in MY 2022/23, a five percent increase over MY 2021/22. In spite of a slightly tighter market, avocado prices remain relatively steady at around $4.00 per kilogram.
The persistent drought in Morocco has severely affected the production of Nadorcott, the Moroccan mandarin variety. Producers in the Houara region (near Agadir) have reported a big drop in volumes.
Apple producers in Okanaga, British Columbia, will receive $2.5 million in government support. The funds will be applied for crop health, fruit production, apple marketing and skills training.
The ongoing crop 2022/23 for was initially estimated by WAPA at a volume very similar to the preceding crop; since the month of August 2022, however, several Member States registered additional drought and heatwave events that will result on smaller fruit sizesand, therefore, lower volumes. In the months to come we will now at which level below 12 million tonnes the EU crop volume will be.
According to information provided by the Blueberry Committee of Chile-ASOEX, with the support of IQonsulting, producers in the Central and Central-South zone had impact from weather events in the first two weeks of November Frosts of varying intensity on November 01 from the Maule-Sur region to the Bío Bío region, and rains between Thursday, November 10 and Saturday, November 12, which affected from O'Higgins to the south, with some sectors where hail also fell.
Cherry producers in India's Shimla district, who produce 75% of Himachal Pradesh stone fruit crop, are being forced to cut down their trees due to leafhoppers that are spreading the rare Cherry X disease. It caused by the pathogenic phutoplasma spread by the leafhoppers.
Crops worth millions of dollars have been destroyed in the Victorian Mallee after hail storms smashed the region at the weekend.Some farmers have lost entire paddocks.While some were insured against hail, others were not.
Emergency protocols have been activated in south central Chile to save crops from unusually heavy spring rains.With cherries bound for export threatened, four Ecocopter helicopters flew over the crops in the O’Higgins region in order to avoid and prevent the splitting, rotting or staining of the fruit.
Heavy rain in the east of Australia is threatening to downgrade the wheat crop and could have severe knock-on effects on a world grain market which was counting on a bumper harvest.
On the 6th of October parts of New Zealand were hit by a severe frost event, the likes of which had not been seen in many years.The regions significantly affected included Opotiki, Edgecumbe, Tauranga, Katikati and Edgecumbe.
About 2 million smallholder farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who operate without insurance despite the increased frequency of hurricanes will get support from international institutions including the World Bank, the lender said.
Serious damage to blueberry orchards in the Ñuble region was caused by the frost recorded on October 31. Losses in some orchards reach 100% of production, depending on location and varieties, which means, in practice, the end of the season for them.
Heavy October rains and more expensive seeds are likely to affect the potato harvest of the Uttar Pradesh area in India. The producers had to sow for a second time after the heavy rain damaged the seeds, making farmers worried about a coming lower harvest.