30.05.2022

India - Rain damage assessed in Chamarajanagar

The Chamarajanagar district in-charge secretary B.B.Cauvery has instructed the officials to expedite compensation for rain damage and assessed crop damage.

30.05.2022

Taiwan - Crop damage from May rains estimated at over NT$15 million

The heavy rains in Taiwan in the second of half of May caused approximately NT$15.14 million (US$517,471) in damage to crops across the country, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Sunday.

30.05.2022

India - Mango production down by around 70% in UP due to bad weather

In some bad news for people who are fond of Lucknowi Dussehri and other varieties of mangoes, the production of the king of the fruits has been hit by around 70 per cent in the mango belt of Uttar Pradesh due to adverse weather conditions this year, according to growers.

27.05.2022

India - Rain destroys paddy in parts of Palakkad

The rain that lashed the State in the last two weeks has destroyed a portion of paddy in the district. However, the farmers were not as desolate as they had been in October-November last year because of the good yield in the second crop.

27.05.2022

Pakistan - Mango production to fall by 50% due to heatwave, water shortage

Pakistan's mango production is expected to decline by around 50% this year, as the crop has been severely hit by unusually high temperatures and water shortages, the chief of a growers' and exporters' association said.

27.05.2022

Spain - The strawberry campaign will be shorter due to the weather and the lack of manpower

Available labor has been a determining factor in the viability and success of the berry and citrus fruit campaigns in the province of Huelva for quite some time now.

27.05.2022

South Africa - Tree-Boring Beetle could cost $18.5 billion over the next decade

A tree-boring beetle the size of a sesame seed could cost South Africa $18.5 billion over the next decade as millions of urban trees are expected to die and will have to be removed and fruit, nut and lumber plantations are harmed, researchers estimate.

27.05.2022

Spain - Stone fruit campaign's production volume will be the lowest in the last decade

According to the Agricultural and Food Cooperatives' first estimates of the Spanish stone fruit campaign, Spain will produce 1,099,284 tons of stone fruits this year, the lowest volume in the last decade and 29.43% lower than the 1,557,094 tons achieved in 2021.

27.05.2022

Poland - Drought is a threat to global food market

The problem of drought is, next to the war in Ukraine, a serious threat to the global food and agricultural market. There is probably no place on earth that has not been hit by drought.

27.05.2022

India - Take steps to avoid rain havoc, officers told

S.Selvakumar, senior IAS officer and secretary in charge of Shivamogga district, has directed officers of the district to take appropriate measures to ensure normal life is not affected during the rainy season. He held a meeting with officers in Shivamogga on Thursday.

27.05.2022

USA - How to assess freeze damage to corn and soybeans

Floppy, cold corn is not what you want to see in late May. But that's exactly what Chase Sauder has been dealing with this week after temperatures dipped below freezing western Nebraska.

26.05.2022

USA - USDA to provide new Emergency Relief Program for commodity, specialty crop producers

The U. S Department of Agriculture (USDA) on May 19 announced that commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon begin receiving emergency relief payments totaling approximately $6 billion through the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) new Emergency Relief Program (ERP) to offset crop yield and value losses.

26.05.2022

USA - Illinois counties eligible for USDA relief payments

Commodity and specialty crop producers in 12 Illinois counties impacted by drought events in 2020 or 2021 are eligible for emergency relief payments.

26.05.2022

India - Over 900 farmers struggle to get crop loss relief in Mahendragarh

More than 900 farmers have been struggling to get compensation under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY) for the crop loss due to waterlogging for the past several months.

26.05.2022

France - Strawberry growers leave fruit to rot as high temperatures complicate harvests

As unusually high temperatures mean everything is ripening at once, French strawberry growers are leaving large quantities of fruit to rot in the fields. They simply do not have the capacity to harvest it all.

26.05.2022

Luxembourg - Vegetable growers troubled by lack of regular rainfall

For over a month, vegetable growers in Luxembourg have been forced to water their fields with drinking water due to a general lack of rain. This of course, is an expensive endeavor.