According to the data presented by the president of Afrucat, Montse Baró, the president of the Committee of Apples and Pears of Afrucat, Joan Serentill, and the Secretary of Food of the Department of Climate Action, Food, and Rural Agenda of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Carmel Mòdol, Catalonia is forecast to produce 23% fewer apples and 24% fewer pears than in 2021.
As much of Europe bakes in the latest heatwave, fears are growing about what’s being dubbed ‘heatflation’ – climate change-driven staple crop losses that could see already inflated food prices reach new highs this autumn, deepening the cost-of-living crisis.
USDA has processed more than 255,000 applications for the new Emergency Relief Program, providing to date more than $6.1 billion in payments to commodity and specialty crop producers to help offset eligible losses from 2020 and 2021 natural disasters.
If one looks hard enough, and knows where to look, one can still see evidence of the lingering damage from the 2020 derecho that flattened millions of acres of crops, crumpled grain bins, leveled sheds, toppled silos and tore off barn roofs.
Malaysia will offer government-backed insurance plans to help compensate farmers for losses after natural disasters, as part of measures to strengthen food security.
Belagavi district in-charge Minister Govind Karjol has asked officials to expedite the process ofsurveying rain damage and immediately release compensation for crop loss and property damage.
The list of Speakers and Agenda for the 2022 AgroInsurance International Conference have been updated. The most recent list of presentations is already available at the official website -www.agroinsconf.com.
July 2022 was the driest July in England since 1935. Combined with record breaking temperatures, we are hearing talk of a drought comparable to the great drought of 1976, with fears of disruptions to public water supply and poor crop yields, especially for fruit and vegetables.
The area under cotton cultivation in Punjab has dropped by over 25,000 acres due to waterlogging and ploughing of standing crops by the farmers owing to the fear of pest attack. This alarming trend has been put forth by the provisional crop assessment carried out by the government.
Following hail storms across France in May and June of this year, which damaged an estimated 30,000 hectares of vines, Marc Fesneau, Minister of Agriculture and Food, has unveiled measures to help those affected.
After facing crop destruction and subsequent losses, the farmers in Karnataka have decided to hold protest on all the state and national highways (NH) next week to demand adequate compensation from the state government as the heavy downpour continues to damage their harvest.
Like human settlements and infrastructure, torrential rains in Balochistan’s Mekran belt have severally affected the date fruits too, causing an estimated Rs2 billion loss to farmers.
A climatologist says it remains to be seen how much of the U.S. corn crop will be impacted by weather this year.Al Dutcher with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the Eastern Corn Belt should offset losses in the Great Plains.
The heavy rainfall earlier this week has caused heavy losses to the cotton crop in Narnaund, Baas, Hansi and Barwala regions of the district.The Agriculture Department report has revealed that 49,212 acres of cotton crop has suffered above 26 per cent losses, of which the crop on 18,700 acres has reported damage above 50 per cent.
The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province.Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so far this month, mostly in the west central and southwest regios.
Extensive loss has been reported on 146.9 hectares of agricultural land in Thiruvananthapuram district with 1,803 farmers bearing the brunt of the inclement weather, according to preliminary estimates by the Agriculture department from July 31 to August 4.