Suraj Kumar, a mango grower in Malihabad in Lucknow districtis busy spraying pesticide in the scorching heat. Usually, one needs tospray pesticide twice in an acre. But due to threat from pests, such as thrip, fruitborer and semi loopers, Kumar is being forced to spray pesticides for the seventh consecutive time.
Recent thunderstorms produced damaging hail in several areas of Michigan and crop producers are assessing the damage. The good news is that the damage probably looks worse than it is because soybeans have a remarkable ability to recover and produce new growth when damaged during the early vegetative growth stages.
The disruption of rail and surface transportin Barak Valley caused by relentless rains and landslides has put a screeching halt to the despatch of tea from the area, pushing Assam’s tea industry into a deep crisis.
“This year began with many complications. There were floods in the north bringing serious consequences to the operation of the port of Durban after drought affected the size of the fruit,” says Shaun Swart, country manager South Africa, Salix Fruits.
Livesay Orchards announced Thursday that they lost a significant amount of their peach crop due to recent storms. The orchard says a May 5 hail storm knocked off and damaged several peaches.
Crops were damaged in a hailstorm in several parts of Mandi district yesterday. While rain brought cheers to people in Mandi, ending a long dry spell, at a few places the hailstorm caused huge losses to farmers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Bajaj Allianz to submit before it Rs 200 crore in six weeks, responding to petitions filed by Maharashtra farmers seeking relief from the insurance company for crop loss.
An exceptionally early heatwave in France and Spain may further stress wheat crops after a dry spring though an expected easing in temperature and showers across the region this month should avert large crop losses, analysts and growers said.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for Eastern Africa and the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock have successfully released biological control agents of the Mango Mealybug in Burundi.
Seeding is nearly complete in Saskatchewan.According to the weekly crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture, 98 per cent of the crop is in the ground in areas where seeding was possible.
This year, there aren’t many cherries to harvest at Tonnemaker Hill Farm in Royal City, a small town about 20 miles east of the Columbia River in Central Washington.
Sorsogon province agricultural losses due to the eruptions of Mt. Bulusan on June 5 and 12 have reached at least P13.6 million (€245,000), says the Department of Agriculture in the Bicol region.
Maize and coffee farmers in Mukurweini Sub-county, Nyeri County are at the verge of hunger following invasion by troops of monkeys on their farms and destroyed their crops.
Asserting that the YSR Free Crop Insurance Scheme is being implemented by the State government to protect farmers from crop loss due to natural calamities, Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Poonam Malakondaiah has said the AP government alone is implementing the prestigious scheme without any connection with the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana of the Centre.
Crop damage from Tuesday night's storms will add another worry for farmers in the middle of drought conditions. Thunderstorms hammered York County – like much of the state – Tuesday night. The county saw 5-7 storm cells over a matter of hours, according to the National Weather Service in Hastings.
To save their crops from massive destruction, fruit farmers are having to spray pesticides — often multiple times — to combat the invasive vinegar fly, spotted wing drosophila.