Potato production in India in the current crop year is estimated to be 53.60 mt, down from 56.17 mt last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture's first estimate of horticulture production.
Clemson University researchers are conducting research to improve sustainability of the Southeast’s peach production, focusing on bacterial canker and bacterial spot diseases.
The Haryana government launched the ‘Chaara-Bijaee Yojana’ on Tuesday to encourage farmers to grow fodder and help gaushalas, which have been grappling with fodder shortage amid a rise in the stray cattle population.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court recently directed Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited to grant compensation/claims of nearly 3.57 lakh farmers from Osmanabad district for post-harvest loss to soyabean crop due to heavy rainfall in the Kharif season of 2020.
The Brown Locust outbreaks in Southern Africa have not captured headlines in the same way as the desert locust in the Horn of Africa, and the Arabian peninsula has done. However, the pest remains a daunting challenge in regions in southern Namibia as well as in South Africa.
Texas wildfires that ravaged the Eastland Complex, parts of the Panhandle and Coryell County regions encompassing 433,000 acres have resulted in $23.1 million in preliminary agricultural loss estimates, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists.
France’s rich wheat fields seemed an obvious partial solution to the grain shortages caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the traditional “bread basket” of Europe.
Heading into May 9, 2022, farmers in the Northern Plains and northwest Minnesota are behind on planting due to heavy snow, rain in April and now spring flooding.
Director General Horticulture Kashmir and Director Agriculture Kashmir on Sunday toured affected areas to access the losses, just one day after parts of Srinagar witnessed heavy hailstorm that caused heavy damage to orchards, crops and other standing crops.
Heavy gales followed by rain on Saturday night damaged banana and papaya plantations in Kollipara, Tenali, Mangalagiri and Tadepalli mandals of Guntur district.
The severe weather and flooding in Australia have damaged the latest macadamia crop leading to a reduced forecast by the Australian Macadamia Society (AMS), which expects a 10% decline.
With the arrival of the first batches, this year's stone fruit season has begun in Spain. However, industry players now look with concern at the weather-related problems in the countries of origin, as Roberto Tur, says specialized importer and managing director of Fresh Fruit Alliance, based in Friedrichshafen.
Most parts of Zambia started receiving heavy rains on 11 January 2022. On the 16 January 2022, Kalomo, Namwala and Choma districts of the Southern Province started experiencing flash floods.
Local officials in North Korea are forcing office workers into the fields to help water plants due to a shortage of working water pumps, as the government struggles to combat a widespread drought, sources in the country told RFA.
Cold temperatures and excessive moisture have pushed back spring planting across the northern Plains and bumped the final dates for crop insurance coverage too close for comfort for some farmers.
High winds and the heatwave are damaging mango crops in six districts of Sindh. The affected districts are Mirpurkhas, Tando Allah Yar, Hyderabad, Matiari, Sanghar and Tando Muhammad Khan.