Pakistan's farmers and policymakers are beginning to count the agricultural costs of the floods that have wreaked destruction across the country, bracing themselves for an unprecedented food crisis.
On Friday, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) announced that payments have started to issue under the Horticultural Exceptional Payment Scheme (HEPS) to eligible growers.
Since the beginning of the year, there has been a severe drought affecting several European fruit and vegetable growing regions due to persistent lack of precipitation, combined with heat waves as early as May. Unfortunately, positive trends are not in sight.
Growers and shippers were on watch on Friday following reports that Tropical Storm Kay had made landfall in Mexico. Categorized as a Category 1 storm, it reportedly hit along the West Coast of the central Baja California peninsula starting Thursday afternoon.
Temperatures on the northern coast of Peru could play a very important role in this mango campaign. The low temperatures recorded (especially in Piura) have generated a great flowering of the trees.
Hillridge, a Sydney-based AI crop insurance platform, has raised $2.3m in seed funding as it plans to expand its weather insurance platform to southeast Asia.The round was led by Artesian (Alternative Investments) and InterValley Ventures, and supported by Sangha Capital SA, ACTAI Ventures and WAVIA.
The dwarf disease has been observed in the paddy crop over 34,000 hectares in Punjab with the state agriculture department projecting an average of 5% crop loss in the affected fields.
President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday called for a user-friendly crop insurance system to protect the farmers against the crop failure and the losses, caused by man-made or natural calamities, especially in the wake of current global-warming-induced super floods in Pakistan.
Cannabis crops are disproportionately impacted by wildfires in California compared to other major crops in the state, according to a study by the University of California, Berkeley.
The post-flood assessment of damage to standing kharif crops spells doom for the Pakistan’s cotton value chain. Several estimates place the extent of damage to anywhere between 50 – 70 percent, enough to bring the spinning industry to a grinding halt.
In 1996, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) created a first-of-its-kind calendar with district-wise weather information for crop cultivation.It provided sowing and harvesting time, as well as weekly average rainfall and temperature during critical growth stages of the area's major crops.
It's time for a balance sheet for the PDO Potato of Bologna Dop consortium. President Davide Martelli, reached by phone while on the tractor tilling the land, sounds disheartened.
Pointing out that most of the more than 100 lakes coming under Chamundeshwari Constituency had breached following heavy rains, he said that farmers have suffered extensive crop loss due to floods.
Frosts recorded in the last two weeks in Argentina have caused some damage to the South American country’s 2022/23 wheat crop, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said on Thursday.
A recent by the International Centre for Integrated Mountains Development (ICIMOD) andPakistanAgricultural Research Council (PARC) has revealed that the recent massive torrentialrainshad inundated the cropland of Southeastern province ofSindhthat devastated commercial crops on large scale and incurred a combined loss of $1.7billion.
A conflagration which swept across farmland in theJordan Valleythis week and lasted for three consecutive days before coming under control damaged crops and resulted in losses to farmers, who accused Israel of being behind the blaze.