West Bengal Agriculture Minister Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay on Thursday said around 1.44 lakh farmers who suffered crop loss due to unseasonal rain in December-January will receive Rs 112.8 crore as insurance amount.
Banana farmer Sadhuram Kharel of Nijgadh 9 lost most of his plants to a violent storm in April. A devastated Kharel, who has been growing the fleshy fruit for 10 years, isn't interested anymore in casting his ballot on Friday.
Jared Nordick has been spending more time than usual the past few weeks double and triple checking the equipment he will use for planting, and monitoring the condition of his muddy fields.
Many producers have been unable to work much in their fields this spring, making any last-minute pre-plant fertilizer applications difficult. Ahead of rising prices this spring, Jay Fisher, agronomist for Nutrien Ag Solutions in eastern Iowa, said farmers were able to get out in the fall for most of their applications, but a wet spring may mean the need for additional supply early in the growing season.
Dryness across central Brazil has been noted for quite some time and is likely to have an impact on safrinha (second-crop) corn production as soil moisture has become critical.
Grower Brad Fowler walked into the cherry orchard on yet another May day when the temperatures struggled to climb above 50 degrees and a chill wind swept through the long rows of trees at the tail end of their annual bloom.
The Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench has ordered an insurance company to pay claims filed by 3,57,287 farmers in the Osmanabad district for post-harvest losses to soyabean crops caused by excessive rains in the 2020 Kharif season.
500 hectares of banana, areca nut, papaya and mango orchards have been damaged in Kurnool and Anantapur districts following heavy gales and rains on Monday evening due to the impact of Cyclone Asani.
The famous Dharmapuri mangoes of Tamil Nadu are set to get more expensive as a result of pest attack leading to shortage. According to farmers, the prices are yet to be fixed but it will be anywhere more than 20 to 30 per cent than the previous years, given the damage suffered by the pest attack.
Earlier this year wet weather events in South East Queensland created quite some havoc with many farms being affected due to severe wet weather conditions. Severe wet weather conditions are again forecasted for this week in SEQ production regions and weather forecasters are saying that this month of May might break previous May rain records.
Hailstorms in the last few days have caused damage to fruit crops in different areas of Kashmir, prompting growers to once again appeal to the administration for a crop insurance scheme.
“The early spring weather in the Salinas area has been unusual.” So says Mark McBride of Coastline Family Farms in Salinas, California who can’t help but notice the interesting weather changes in the state as of late--cold temperatures, some rain and imminent heat this weekend.
Agricultural operations in Montana have been significantly impacted by a recent blizzard and major spring snowstorms. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events.
As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.
Honey producers are dealing with added challenges this year from a variety of reasons. Cameron Brown, of Farmer Brown’s Honey, is a beekeeper in the Meota area. Brown said he put in 800 colonies to overwinter.
The fungus has been observed in guarana clones, indicating that the new pathogen needs to be monitored so that it does not become a problem for the crop in the future.