Keen on taking the benefits of insurance cover to farmers across the country, the government has urged insurance companies to conduct ‘Fasal Bima Pathshalas’ from 25th April to 1st May 2022.
All eyes are on the weather as Washington makes its way towards the upcoming cherry season. “We’re in the bloom season right now and so far, it’s a trying time,” says Dan Davis with Starr Ranch Growers based in Wenatchee, Washington.
Soya farmers in Kayonza District have incurred losses as floods destroyed over 30 hectares of plantations. The floods resulted from the heavy rains that poured on Saturday, April 23, 2022.
This week, small quantities of the first batches of Murcia's extra early stone fruit have started to be sold. In this Spanish region, the harvest has been delayed by between 7 and 10 days due to the impact of rains and low temperatures.
The Citrus Contact Group of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal considers the new control measures adopted by the European Union to prevent the introduction and spread of black spot (Phyllosticta citricarpa) in the European market "insufficient".
A heavy intense hail storm which struck parts of the Murcia Region on Wednesday April 20 has caused severe damage to many of the peach, nectarine, plum, yellow peach and pear crops. Farms around the town of Cieza were hardest hit.
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Local Fingal TD, Darragh O’Brien, has welcomed the announcement that almost €3m in aid will be made available to the horticulture sector.
Epidemic situation with COVID-19 has been putglobally under control with major air connections and international travels renewed. Georgia has also eased most of the restrictions making it possible to confirm the new datesof the International Conference “Agricultural Insurance, Reinsurance & Brokerage in CIS, Europe & Asia”. The venue will be held on September 26-28, 2022 in Tbilisi, Georgia, at the Biltmore Hotel.
The incessant summer rains left Kuttanad’s paddy farmers beleaguered as their matured crops lay submerged in the fields just before the scheduled harvest. Kuttanad, in Kerala, lies two to three feet below sea level, which means water that accumulates here is hard to drain naturally.
Thousands of cashew growers in Ganjam district have suffered crop loss due tothe infestation, according toSarat Chandra Behera, deputy director of the state horticulture department.
"Amidst the backdrop of extensive media coverage that the current harvest has received, we deem it important to remind industry role-players that the timely marketing of quality grapes in preferred export markets at certain price levels determines the success of our industry.
Three faculty members in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech received a $633,551 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to fund a four-year research project on the economics of food loss and waste.
Floodwater started entering Baram and Darakhai Haors in Derai and Jagannathpur upazilas of Sunamganj on Thursday overflowing the flood protection embankment along Kalni River, causing worry to local farmers.
ScientistS from the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) have a new publication in press titled,Two Liberibacter Proteins Combine to Suppress Critical Innate Immune Defenses in Citrus.This publication will be published soon in Frontiers in Plant Science in the Crop and Product Physiology section.
The African continent is no stranger to drought periods, when lower-than-normal rainfall extends across multiple rainy seasons or years.
Oregon’s grape growers recently endured wildfires, COVID-19 shutdowns and a heat dome. Nobody warned them that winter was coming in April. Frost descended upon Oregon vineyards last week as temperatures in many locations dipped into the mid-20s.