Late rainfall, below average incomes, and increasing input costs do not bode well for the 2022 harvesting season in Zimbabwe. This was according to a report by the international Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET).
As Europe forecasts a recovery in apricot production following 2021’s widespread frosts, Spain is braced for sharp fall in output due to inclement weather in some of the country’s main production areas.
Unseasonal rain accompanied by hail and thunderstorms that occurred at night on Tuesday has caused huge damage to standing and harvested crops in the erstwhile Karimnagar district.
India's wheat output looks likely to fall in 2022 after five consecutive years of record harvests, as a sharp, sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March cut crop yields in the world's second-biggest producer of the grain.
A day after heavy gales, hailstorms and downpour were reported in Chittoor and Annamayya districts, officials put the preliminary estimation of loss incurred by farmers growing mango and other horticulture crops in the districts at 8 crore.
The extreme weather in some areas over the last few weeks brought some much needed moisture, but it also resulted in some substantial livestock losses.
After the demand of Kheri Chopta farmers was accepted by the administration, farmers of the Balsamand region have also raised the similar demand, alleging that they had also been denied the compensation even though they had suffered cotton crop losses during the kharif season of 2021.
Strong wind damaged more than 10,000 banana plants and uprooted 20 coconut trees at Lingapuram, Kanthavayal and surrounding areas near Sirumugai on Monday evening. A transformer and two trees were uprooted at Mettupalayam as well. One of the trees fell on a car, damaging it.
Extreme frosts are a key part of the impact of global warming. Europe is experiencing more frequent, more intense and more unpredictable spells of frost, which wipe out entire vineyards and orchards, and damage the quality of the crop, not only for the current year, but also the years directly following.
Up to 40 percent of our planet’s land is degraded, directly affecting half of humanity and threatening about 50 percent of global GDP. By 2050, if we don’t change our trajectory, an additional area almost the size of South America will become degraded, with dire repercussions for climate, biodiversity, and human life.
The 2022 vintage in some of California's winegrape-growing regions took a massive hit from a mid-April frost that will leave some farmers with nothing to harvest.
Famously known as the “White Combine” hail storms are a potential threat for ag producers and farmers to lose what they’ve invested in. Producers in Deaf Smith County are still assessing damage from Sunday night’s weather phenomenon hoping the next round of storms will not bring more hail.
The Bulgarian government is to allocate a record €560 million budget to ensure the country’s food security in light of the war in Ukraine. According to Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Ivan Ivanov, this funding is designed to help the sector deal with the fallout of the war in Ukraine which has seen prices for feed, fertilizers and gas soar.
According to the 2022 European apricot harvest forecasts presented today in the framework of the MEDFEL fair in France, Catalonia and Aragon will produce 2,970 and 2,988 tons of apricot this season, i.e. 67% and 85% less than in the 2021 season, respectively.
The Fino lemon season is practically over, driven by good prices in recent weeks due to the lower supply of fruit. At the same time, the first Verna lemons are starting to be sold, and their volumes are expected to be reduced by more than 40%, according to Ailimpo.
Extreme heat episodes over the past two months have particularly been devastating for the agriculture sector, forcing farmers and experts to demand urgent government measures to build climate resilience at the grass-root level.