Thousands of maize growing farmers, mostly marginal and small, suffered heavy loss in Bihar’s Seemanchal and Koshi regions following their crops being damaged due to thunderstorms and rain in the last two days.
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Biju P from Anacode in Poovachal panchayat had invested more than `10 lakh to cultivate paddy on his one acre land. However, he had to helplessly watch his crops get destroyed in the recent summer rain.
According to ASAJA, the frost in April has left losses in Catalonia estimated at more than 600 million euro, the same as in Aragon. In total, some 30,000 hectares of insured fruit trees and more than 70,000 hectares of uninsured almond trees have been affected, which will surpass the 40 million in losses estimated by Agroseguro.
The farmers whose wheat crop has been damaged in field fires are making rounds of government offices for compensation. The hapless farmers do not know whom to approach as there is no provision of compensation for the crops damaged by fire in the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).
The cost of typhoon Agaton’s devastation to agriculture continues to increase with the Department of Agriculture (DA) pegging it at P2.8 billion as of Thursday, April 21.
Throughout Germany, strawberry plants are doing well. After an average mild winter and storms, the crops have weathered the late frosts well so far thanks to foil tunnels, fleece covers and frost protection irrigation.
Sugarcane farming industry body South African Cane Growers (SA Canegrowers) says preliminary results from a survey of KwaZulu-Natal cane growers reveal extensive damage from the recent flooding to cane fields, farm infrastructure and access routes to deliver cane to mills.
A week of hard night freezes followed by stiff north winds left almond orchards decimated in the Upper Sacramento Valley, leaving growers with nothing to do but look ahead to next year's crop.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday expressed concern over the statewide incidents of fire in wheat crop. He demanded a compensation of at least Rs 25, 000 per acre for the crops destroyed by the fire.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has issued a declaration of a national state of disaster to respond to widespread flooding. He explained how, over the last week, communities along parts of South Africa’s eastern coast have been devastated by catastrophic flooding.
The agriculture sector in Alappuzha has suffered losses to the tune of around ₹124 crore in the recent rain fury, according to a preliminary report prepared by the Agriculture department.
The persistent and intense rains that plagued the Region of Murcia throughout March and early April have had a devastating effect on many crops, affecting some 30% of the harvests for this year.
The estimated total agricultural damage caused by tropical cyclone “Agaton” jumped to P1.4 billion on Tuesday, said the Department of Agriculture (DA). This is double the damage reported on Monday, which was at P718 million.
The recent heavy rain and windstorms on the early morning of April 15 damaged more than 167 acres of maize fields in Karmaling and Nichula gewogs under Dagana.
The World Food Program warns an estimated 20 million people in drought-affected parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia could face catastrophic levels of hunger if the region is hit with a fourth consecutive year of drought.