The Papaya Mealybug is a pest that was first detected in Uganda in 2012; a small polyphagous sap sucking insect that attacks leaves and stems to suck on the sap. In the end, it will kill plants like the pawpaw.
Julio Bacete, the president of the National Garlic Table, calculates that the sowing area, to date, may have fallen by 15 to 20% over the previous campaign; a trend that has been confirmed by the National Association of Garlic Producers and Marketers (Anpca) and by the National Garlic Table.
"On the morning of Friday October 7, we had the worst frost in the three-generation history of our orchard that has destroyed approximately 90% of our crop. Temperatures plummeted to -5C on our orchard."
The lack of water has already left its mark on Malaga's countryside. The Provincial Association of Irrigators of Malaga (Aprema) has stated that this year's tomato crops have fallen because, after the drought decree was approved, many producers in the Guadalhorce Valley decided not to buy tomato plants.
According to preliminary estimates by the Special Harvest and Quality Evaluation (BEE), this year's potato harvest will be considerably smaller than those of previous years.
Following a dry autumn, a dry winter and a spring with little rain, a summer of record heatwaves and drought engulfed Spain. Doñana National Park, one of Europe’s most important wetlands, is a critical wintering spot and stopover point for birds migrating between Africa and Europe.
Sylvia Colbert watched and waited for the banana and 50-foot bamboo trees on her property to snap beneath the pounding rains and roaring winds of Hurricane Ian.
Teagasc has confirmed that Irish potato yields have declined year on year by approximately 10 to 15% in 2022. The area of main crop grown in 2022 came in at 7,400ha. There were a number of factors that came into play which heavily impacted on this year’s yields.
After extensive damage caused to kharif crops during the recent unseasonal rains, an assessment has started in Rajasthan for providing relief to the affected farmers. The survey of crops has been launched in Tonk, Bundi and Kota districts in the presence of revenue officials and representatives of insurance companies.
Growers around Seville are having to take preventive measures to protect its 48,000 orange trees from deadly bacteria that have already devastated citrus crops in Asia, Latin America and the US.
This year’s drought caused losses of over EUR 1 bln for the Romanian agricultural sector, with 800,000 of the country’s 5.4 million hectares of crops being impacted.2021 saw a record production of 34 million tons of grain, and prices that were kept up by the war in Ukraine.
Delta farmers have sought direct disbursement of the crop insurance compensation on the lines of the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme.Pointing out that implementation of the scheme under the direct benefit transfer (DBT) method has resulted in the beneficiaries receiving the annual income support amount without any hassle, they want the benefits of the crop insurance scheme also disbursed through the DBT mode.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen fired his agriculture minister over the weekend, following the loss of tens of thousands of hectares of rice paddies and other crops in torrential flooding — a move farm groups welcomed Monday as a sign of more government attention to their plight.
Federal and state agriculture authorities on Sept. 16 established an Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)quarantine in the Fountain Valley area of Orange County, California.
Australian farmers are seeing ‘a terrible waste’ of produce, with truckloads of healthy oranges being dumped across the country. About 1500 semi-trailers full of what seem like perfectly fine oranges have been dumped at sites around the nation, while orange orchards filled with ripe fruit are also being slashed to pieces.
The Agriculture Department has modified the State crop insurance scheme to allow nominees to collect crop loss compensation in the event of the death of the farmer or if he/she is paralysed and bedridden.