Telugu Desam Party State president K. Atchannaidu on Saturday urged the government to pay compensation to farmers who suffered crop loss due to the unseasonal rains in the State.
The hail and tornado in Murcia this week caused €16 million in damages. Orchards growing apricots, lemons, peaches, almonds and nectarines in Murcia have been badly affected by the weather.
After a poor yield of mustard, farmers had high hopes from sunflower, but they are staring at a yield loss in sunflower too as the issue of multi-flowering in the crop has left farmers in Ambala and Kurukshetra worried.
Aninordinate delay in release of compensation for crop loss last year has led to building up of resentment among the farmers in Ganjam district even as a fresh system threatens to bring in heavy showers.
A punishing drought in West Texas is turning fields to dust in the U.S.’s top cotton-growing region, deepening a global supply-chain shock that is likely to further weigh on clothing prices.
FruitVeB, the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organization, has taken a look at the possible extent of damage to the coming apricot season due to some early spring frost, and provided an impromptu forecast of this year’s (2022) crop prospects.
A Status Yellow warning for potato blight for Co. Clare was issued on Wednesday, May 4 by Met Éireann. The national forecaster said that weather conditions will be conducive to the spread of potato blight in early sown crops in parts of the banner county from Friday evening (May 6) through to Saturday afternoon (May 7).
Those seeking the Spanish sun during the May vacation this year will likely be sorely disappointed. "The weather's been terrible here again this week," says Thomas Bos, who moved from the Netherlands to Alicante in 2003.
Rural areas across the Eastern Cape have already suffered from the effects of climate change: severe drought, damage to roads from extreme storms, and crop and livestock loss.
Brazil has been slated for a record corn harvest this year after drought ravaged the country’s soybeans just months ago and its corn a year ago, but dryness once again threatens to curb potential on its second crop.
More than 20 farmers have died by suicide in Telangana since January 2022. And the cause is ‘Chilli threats’, a pest attack that has affected hundreds of farmers across the state. And, the inability to pay back loans has pushed farmers to take the extreme step.
A novel modelling system relying on simple inputs could help smallholder farmers accurately predict the best time for controlling fall armyworm larval populations to prevent crop damage and yield losses, a study shows.
USDA updated three key crop insurance options for livestock producers: the Dairy Revenue Protection, Livestock Gross Marginand Livestock Risk Protection. USDA’s Risk Management Agency revised the insurance options to reach more producers, offer greater flexibility for protecting their operations, and ultimately, better meet the needs of the country’s swine, dairy and cattle producers.
Once again, the weather has proved to be very unstable in the Region of Murcia this spring. Yesterday there was a strong storm with intermittent hail and tornadoes in the regions of the Mula River, the Northwest, and the Region's Altiplano.
According to Afrucat, Spain will produce the lowest volume o fruit in the last 40 years because of the damage caused by the frost in early April, especially in stone fruit in the Ebro valley, one of the most important producing areas of sweet fruit in Europe, as well as in Catalonia and Aragon.
North Korea's white-collar workers have been deployed to farming areas across the country to help fight against drought, state media said, as the impoverished nation struggles to prevent heavy crop damage.