Cotton production has been decimated by drought and extreme heat this year, costing Texas High Plains farmers and other agricultural industries at least $2 billion, according to one estimate.
For the first time ever, a citrus tree disease known as the Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing Virus was found in the United States during a farm inspection in Tulare.
According to data from Agroseguro consulted by Europa Press, farmers in Almeria have already insured more than 2,300 hectares of vegetables under cover for the 2022/2023 campaign in a total of 3,290 plots of crops under shelter, which means coverage for about 204,509 tons of fruit and vegetable products valued at about 162 million euro.
Dozens of citrus-field owners in the Camp de Morvedre have already informed the Valencian Farmers' Association (AVA-Asaja) that they will not continue with production this season, given the 'untenable' production costs.
Cold spring weather, a late April frost and their impact on pollination has delayed the Yakima Valley peach harvesting season, which usually is at its peak by now.
After the hottest summer for almost 100 years many parts of the UK are in drought conditions and the North East, South West, Central and East of England have been declared to be in drought conditions by DEFRA.
Due to global warming-induced rainfalls and flooding, the cotton crop has suffered irreparably taking prices of the crop to the highest ever witnessed in Pakistan.Continuous torrential rains and floods have engulfed Pakistan’s cotton fields resulting in irreparable loss to the sector, said cotton market expert Naseem Usman.
Drought is shrinking crops from the US Farm Belt to China’s Yangtze River basin, ratcheting up fears of global hunger and weighing on the outlook for inflation.The latest warning flare comes out of the American Midwest, where some corn is so parched stalks are missing ears of grain and soybean pods are fewer and smaller than usual.
The unusual heavy monsoon rains and devastating flash floods have estimated to cost cash-strapped Pakistan's economy over USD 4 billion in the current fiscal year as the calamity has badly hurt agricultural activities in Sindh and Balochistan, according to a research report.
In recent months, the drought emergency caused by the absence of rainfall and aggravated by the extreme heat conditions of this torrid summer has generated more interest within the agricultural sector in drilling wells to provide water to heat-stressed crops.
Japan's MY 2021/22 cherry production fell by 24 percent from MY 2020/2021 due to frost damage to cherry flowers in Yamagata. Post estimates Japan’s cherry production in MY 2022/23 began to recover and increased by 18 percent from the MY 2021/22 level.
The scorching heat in Italy, which this year was already felt in the month of May and then did not go away, and the lack of rain, are causing a decline in citrus yields in the Basilicata region.
Industry experts claim that ongoing losses because of fruit quality issues might become a $500 million problem for the kiwifruit industry if a solution is not found.
Collector V. Vishnu has assured that the farmers, who had suffered paddy and black gram crop loss, would get insurance benefits within 45 days if they had paid the insurance premium for the crops before the deadline.
Kelly Giles pays close attention to weather trends.“We run about a 3 year average calculation of rainfall,” said Giles, co-owner of Giles Angus Ranch, 1,200 cattle head operation in Canyon.
Nearly all of Massachusetts remains under severe or extreme drought, according to the US Drought Monitor’s weekly report on Thursday, as wildfires continued to burn across the state.