Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that while the arrangements in urban areas were affected due to heavy rains in this monsoon, farmers in rural areas had to face a lot of difficulties due to excessive rainfall. The state government has left no stone unturned in providing assistance in this hour of crisis.
Farmers in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region suffered yet another severe blow due to incessant rains during August and September. This comes after the farmers had incurred severe losses worth crores of rupees during July, 2022.
Growers in the state of Maine, who are producing blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, are concerned about the impact of an invasive fruit fly that has made it to the state.
To make an accurate assessment of the crop loss due to floods along the Yamuna river three days ago, the district administration has taken the help of Drone Imaging and Information Service of Haryana Limited (DRIISHYA).
The 2022 season is not a great success for Polish raspberry growers. It was a season of high hopes that seemed to come true at the beginning, followed by a series of bitter disappointments, when prices, especially for raspberries for processing, plummeted.
The Revenue and Disaster Management Department floated the portal on September 26, which is linked with ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’, after continuous rains damaged kharif crops, including paddy, guar, bajra and cotton, in the state.
Portugal has been hit by months of dry weather. According to the Portuguese Institute of Meteorology (IPMA). These left around 40% of mainland Portugal in extreme drought. Earlier this week, Lisbon expanded an order to temporarily restrict water use for electricity production and irrigation to more of its hydropower dams.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar while chairing a high-level meeting of the Administrative Secretaries, Divisional and Deputy Commissioner held here in the late evening said that farmers should be encouraged to register their crop damage on the e-Fasal Kshatipoorti portal so that they can get timely compensation of the same.
All along the High Plains and West Texas, cotton farmers are facing the same scenario: Thirsty, scorched crops that are dwindling by the day.Across the region, no community will come out unscathed from the detriment caused by the unwavering drought conditions and extended periods of heatwaves that loomed over the area earlier this year.
Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm and is slowly making its way through the state as a Category 1 hurricane. Yesterday, anarticlewas published about the potential impact on citrus and vegetable crops as well as logistics challenges. More will become clear in the coming days and weeks.
Farmers who have cultivated rain-fed crops in the district are starring at heavy loss this year as the ‘summer rain’, which would usually save the standing crops between July and October, has let down the growers at the crucial phase.
A total 54,876 farmers in seven districts — Rohtak, Jhajjar, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri and Gurugram — have sought compensation for their bajra, cotton, paddy and other crops due to the incessant rain that lashed the region for three consecutive days last week.
ASAJA Málaga stressed that, despite having a smaller caliber this season, the quality of the mango from Malaga is great. "Producers are currently harvesting the mango and they have noticed that, even though there is a lot of fruit, a percentage of the mangoes is smaller than usual.
The district administration has approved third instalment compensation of ₹90.99 crore for 1,05,967 farmers for crop loss in excess rainfall in Kalaburagi district for the kharif season.
At Heiner Rothkopf's modern greenhouse facility in Euskirchen, regional strawberries grow and thrive from April until November. In this interview, he talks about this year's harvest, which will be remembered as particularly challenging, and about the longer-term prospects of protected cultivation.
Florida growers and shippers were, as of press time last night, watching, waiting, and preparing for Hurricane Ian. The last reports of the storm, which made its way through Cuba as a hurricane, indicated that it might come through the state as a Category 4 storm starting today.