Tanveer Aziz Kingrani was planning to spend August preparing for his term examinations at the University of Sindh. Instead, the 23-year-old aspiring physicist has been camping out in a tent with 18 family members for the past week after his village was completely submerged in floods.
Over 8.15 lakh intimations have been received by the agri insurance companies in Maharashtra for crop damage or crop loss due to heavy rains till date. The work for completion of surveys is still on with farmers hoping for clear weather in the days to come.
The ongoing drought has been impacting fruit production in France and fruit growers are concerned about the increasing number of weather incidents and the seriousness of the consequences on their crops.
The Rhine-Ruhr region is now in full lettuce harvest mode, as Peter-Josef Eßer, a vegetable grower in Korschenbroich and direct marketer at the Düsseldorf wholesale market, tells us.
The pomegranate campaign has started in recent days in Elche, which is traditionally the main producing area in Spain. It is expected that the volumes of the most representative varieties of the area, such as the Mollar de Elche and the Valenciana, will fall by 30% compared to their productive potential.
With the Opposition demanding early crop loss compensation for farmers, the State government has decided to convene a meeting of insurance companies next week to settle claims.
The USDA projects Ukraine’s walnut production decreasing to 95,500 metric tons (MT) for marketing year (MY) 2022/23 based on a combination of suboptimal weather conditions and some production areas in Russian occupied areas.
Faced with a historic drop in potato yields predicted for the 2022 harvest in France, the UNPT union was received, on September 2nd, by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty. Here are the main requests made by producers to the French government.
Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved vital decisions in a cabinet meeting held in Lucknow on Tuesday.In an attempt to provide much-needed relief to the farmers facing challenges of sorts, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath, approved aid of Rs 192.57 crore for them.
In Belgium, pear harvesting is in full swing. Many growers and traders are already skeptical about the coming season, which will be another uncertain one. "Belgian pears are facing another challenging year," says Tony Derwael of Bel'Export.
Agricultural pests that devour key food crops are advancing northwards in the US and becoming more widespread as the climate hots up, new research warns.The corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea) is considered to be among the most common farm pests in the US, ravaging crops such as maize, cotton, soya and other vegetables.
Pakistan's floods have caused irreparable damage towards the agricultural output for 2022. With over one-third of the country swimming under water, the damage to agricultural land is over 2 million acres of crops and orchards as reported by the United Nations.
Farmers of Adampur, Balsamand and Kheri Chopta today staged a protest and showed black flags to BJP MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh at the PWD Rest House in Adampur.
The new Spanish citrus season is around the corner. From now on, the Spanish company Piensos Dura will focus on exports too. This fruit and vegetable trading company, originally active in fodder, had always focused on the local market but wants to focus more on, particularly, export to the Netherlands.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the State government to declare compensation for the loss suffered by the farmers as the kuruvai crop raised by them was affected by the recent unexpected heavy rain.
As all districts of Karnataka received heavy rain during the last three months of the southwest monsoon, agricultural and horticultural crops on 5.74 lakh hectares of land worth ₹3,569 crore across the State have been damaged.