Maize and sorghum farmers in Kisumu are staring at glaring losses this season after the African armyworms destroyed 60% of the crops. Kisumu County Chief Officer in charge of agriculture Dr. Paul Omanga confirmed that the pests which have now been brought under control destroyed 10, 000 acres of the crops and pasture in the area.
Soybean crops on New South Wales' North Coast have been ruinedby the flooding in late February. Tony Carusi grows soybeans, rice and cane in Kilgin on the Richmondriver near Broadwater Mill.
Texas A&M AgriLife researchers discovered they can predict corn southern rust epidemic outbreaks by utilizing unmanned aerial systems, UAS, or drones, early enough to help prevent economic damage for growers.
In underground vaults near Ukraine’s battlefields, the genetic code for nearly 2,000 crops is in danger of being permanently destroyed.
Devastating crop losses. Parched land. Millions of dead and dying cattle, goats and camels. Starving and severely malnourished children. Rising global grain prices that force families to go hungry. These are the indelible marks of the food crisis in Africa.
In the Creston Valley, Sutcliffe Farms is the largest asparagus producer in B.C., with 100 acres of the prized vegetables. Customers come from all over the Kootenays to enjoy the harvest, which quickly sells out by mid-June.
This season’s crop of green asparagus in Granada province will be down by 30 per cent compared to last year. Nicolas Chica, the general secretary of UPA, the Union of Small Farmers in Granada warned this Thursday, May 26, that this campaign’s asparagus production in the province will be 30 per cent lower than the previous one.
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Residents of Karimangalam urged the Forest department to increase vigil in the area and protect the agricultural fields from wild elephants. The residents alleged that over 10 acres of sugarcane and mango orchards have been laid waste by three elephants in the past few months.
Currently, 60% of the municipalities in the north of Mexico are suffering severe to exceptional droughts, leading to losses in productivity. These droughts could affect not only crop yields but also the entire fruit and vegetable supply chain for the domestic and export markets, according to information provided by ProducePay.
More and more people are voicing their concern over the danger represented by Citrus greening, a bacteria also known as Huanglongbing (HLB) that is maybe the greatest threat to global citrus cultivation.
Agriculture and allied sector, supported by the Telangana government’s income support and crop insurance schemes for farmers, has been a significant contributor to economic growth in the state since 2016-17.
North Dakota farmer Dwight Grotberg wanted to plant more wheat this spring to capitalize on soaring prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine cut grain exports and left the world short of millions of tonnes of wheat supply.
Here at the Hub of the Great Lakes, consistent warm weather has been taking its own sweet time coming. If you’re a gardener, you are likely already buying your annuals while you can still find them, and then hauling them out into the sun in the morning and back into shelter at night – or covering them – to protect them from the cold until it is safe to plant them up.
Just when farmers were recovering from the damage caused by last year’s monsoon rains, the pre-monsoon showers in May have wreaked havoc on horticultural crops in Karnataka, damaging crops on a total of 8,972 hectares, shows data from the Horticulture Department.
The peach-nectarine-apricot contact group analyzed, agreed upon, and released a report on the health and phytosanitary problems in stone fruit crops. The report describes the main pests and diseases in this sector and reiterates the difficulty that professionals in the four countries that make up the group.
Widespread flooding in the South American country of Suriname has isolated communities, devastated crops and shuttered schools and businesses, according to authorities.