Flooding and excessive rains across key parts of Australia’s wheat growing areas have resulted in extensive damage to what was expected to be a record bin-busting high quality crop just a few weeks ago, exacerbating concerns over world food supplies.
Egyptian farmers working the land in the Nile River Delta are facing increasing troubles as rising sea levels infuse the once fertile soil with dried salt. There are concerns that this might become worse over time if urgent measures are not taken to combat the rising seawater.
The farmers said the agriculture department submitted a report to the high court that standing crops like cotton, soya, mirchi, black gram and red gram were badly damaged in 1.4 lakh acres of 26,783 farmers in the district.
This year's new season of Yantai Fuji apples began harvesting after Shuangjiang (end of Oct), and it is expected that the supply period will end in several days. Despite the frequent occurrence of extreme weather, such as rain in the early stages, this did not lead to a delay in the start of the Yantai Fuji production season.
Agricultural damage and losses caused by Severe Tropical Storm Paeng (international name: Nalgae) have increased to P2.86 billion as of Thursday afternoon, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).
More than 3,000 farm animals and more than 120,000 hectares of crops have been lost in thedevastating Victorian floods.The state government estimatesabout 12,000 farming properties have been affected and that 5,000 kilometres of fencing has been damaged and 50,000 tonnes of hay or silage destroyed.
Global wine production, hit hard by climate change events, is set to be below average this year, according to estimates from theInternational Organisation of Vine and Wine(OIV).
At Islamic Relief we witness the impact of extreme weather events in our work all over the world. Right now, children in Somalia are starving because of an unprecedented drought, while in Pakistan I recentlysaw for myselfthe devastation caused by the worst floods in decades.
Claiming that the compensation released by Karnataka government for the monsoon crop loss due to excess rainfall was ‘unscientific’, Congress leader B.R. Patil demanded a resurvey of the crop damage across Kalaburagi district.
Rain conjures hope in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region. Its eight districts are predominantly rainfed and are among the most drought-prone areas in the country. Monsoon failures and chronic farmer suicides bring the region national notoriety.
From Hurricanes Fiona and Ian to flooding in eastern Kentucky and a record dry summer as the western United States entered its 22nd year of a once-in-a-millennium megadrought, the United States has already experienced over a dozen major weather catastrophes, with setbacks surpassing $1 billion.
A severe frost back on October has seriously jeopardised the amount of fruit that will be available this season.On the night of Thursday, October 7, 2022, Waikato orchards were subjected to a severe frost which caused extensive damage to orchard crops such as blueberries.
Agricultural insurance companies are yet to settle claims for both mid-seasonal and post-harvest crop loss claims registered by farmers in Maharashtra. The claims have not been settled despite the surveys being completed on time and farmers intimating their losses.
Near Kunri, a southern Pakistani town known as Asia's chilli capital, 40-year old farmer Leman Raj rustles through dried plants looking for any of the bright red chillis in his largely destroyed crop which may have survived.
Poland loses as many as PLN 6.5 bn-worth (EUR 1.38 bn) crops a year due to drought with the largest losses reported in the Wielkopolskie province, a report by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) has shown.
Climate change has never been fair. While the battle remains a global effort, the disproportional manner in which climate disaster tramples on the weakest makes it an achingly cruel opponent.