The Uttar Pradesh government will be launching a special drive to provide insurance coverage to farmers against potential crop damage. The drive, slated to begin from the first week of July by the agriculture department, will be flagged off by Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi.
In a bid to raise farmers’ income and ensure safety of their crops, a compensation of Rs 3074.6 crore has been deposited in the accounts of 27.59 lakh farmers in Uttar Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. A large number of farmers from the state are connected with this scheme.
Dimple Panjta, an apple grower from Rohru in Shimla district is distressed ahead of harvesting season. He says that he never saw the hills of Himachal as warm and in need of rainfall as now.
Drought is only the beginning of worries for growers like Juan Francisco Arregui in Argentina's breadbasket farmlands, who the world is relying on more than usual these days to fill a supply crunch of the grain needed to make bread and flour.
Lloyd Arthur can run his hand through the soil at his cotton farm and know what kind of year he’s going to have. His dry, cracked field is making him think this could be a repeat of one of the state’s worst years.
On June 1, water restrictions officially began for many people in Southern California. It is an effort to mitigate the effects of a megadrought. Overall, the last two decades in California have gone on the record as the hottest and driest in the previous 1,200 years.
A heat wave and fires are badly damaging Tunisia's grain harvest, leadig the farmers union to forecast that output will fall well short of government hopes. Loss of grain production comes as the North African country struggles with food importation costs driven higher by the war in Ukraine.
Banana, paddy, tuber and vegetable cultivation in 13.720 hectares in Ernakulam were lost due to monsoon rains in June so far. In the heavy pre-monsoon rain, the district had reported crop loss to the tune of Rs 3.25cr in just one week from May 15. Crops in 165 hectares were damaged in the rain.
While the European Commission has just presented its proposal for a regulation on the “sustainable use of pesticides”, the text that was revealed predicts a real disaster for European agriculture.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to an estimated $23 billion in indirect losses due to production decreases, logistics disruptions, and lower prices for exports.
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their concerns about the future. They discuss how the rain is unreliable – droughts and floods are both becoming more common. The heat is overwhelming before the rains come.
When the floods came this year, it was not just the rice in the paddy fields that were washed away, but also those stored at homesteads — leaving many in a state of food insecurity.
Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) has advised the Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) that samples taken from suspect plants have returned positive results from diagnostic testing known as PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
Summer 2022 is looking like it will be particularly hot, but the lack of water resources is even more worrying as, should this condition continue, it could seriously affect many crops, citrus fruits included.
After causing substantial damage to the cotton crop last year, pink bollworm infestation is beginning to spread its tentacles yet again. Last week, Gurpreet Singh of Ramdittewala village had shared a video on social media showing more than 50 per cent damage to his cotton crop.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that up to $3.25 million would go to help grain farmers in western Kentucky avoid crop and profit loss stemming from December’s tornado outbreak.