For many years, Hungary has been the main supplier of agricultural products, including fruit and vegetables, to the German market. Tons of peppers, tomatoes, stone fruits and the like are sold annually either via German wholesale markets or directly to food retailers.
São Paulo production should reach 146.900 tons, a decline of 0.3% in relation to the previous year, while the productions of Paraná, of 56,200 tons and Santa Catarina, of 55,200 tons, should present a decline of 1.4% and 7.5%, respectively, in the same comparison.
The 2021-2022 orange crop for the São Paulo and West-Southwest Minas Gerais citrus belt, published on April 11, 2022, by Fundecitrus – performed in cooperation with Markestrat, FEA-RP/USP and FCAV/Unesp2 – is 262.97 million boxes of 40.8 kg each.
As debates continue to rage over the suicide of a paddy farmer in Upper Kuttanad, the incident has brought to light the extend of damage that the unseasonal rain has caused to standing crops in the predominantly agrarian belts of Central Travancore.
Though summer showers have come as a relief for many from the sweltering heat, farmers, especially paddy farmers, are a worried lot as rain clouds roll in the afternoons accompanied by lightning and thunder.
The wheat yield has taken a substantial hit in Punjab this rabi season, posing the first major challenge to the Aam Aadmi Party government less than a month after it assumed power in the state.
An invasion. A war. A pandemic. A financial crisis. All have conspired to put unprecedented stress on global food systems. Ukraine and Russia produce a combined total of 14% of the world’s wheat and 30% of the world’s wheat exports, as well as 60% of the world’s sunflower oil.
A party-list organization said Occidental Mindoro farmers must be compensated for losses incurred from onion farming, which it claims stem from liberalized imports and an inability to charge fair prices.
A week ago, Theresa Draper breathed in the balmy air as honey bees zipped from flower to flower in her cherry orchard just outside Hood River. All of her fruit trees were blooming a little early, thanks to a stretch of late winter warmth.
Harvests of some of Ukraine’s most important crops could be cut in half this year, threatening its position as a major exporter and exacerbating already tight global supplies.
A farmer from south Kerala's Kuttanad region ended his life dejected by the crop damage caused by summer showers, while many of his peers in the state are said to be on the verge of taking the extreme stepowing to a lack of adequate support and compensation.
Luckily, the cold wave that hit many European regions earlier this month seems to have spared the French producers of peaches and apricots, who were severely affected last year.
The frosts recorded recently in the Spanish Region of Valencia have already caused losses estimated at more than 50 million Euro, according to data published by LA UNIÓ de Llauradors. This adds to the 11 million that had already been caused by the persistent rains.
South Africa has been experiencing a brown locust outbreak since September 2021. The outbreak is in three provinces of the country; namely Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces.
Tropical cyclone “Agaton” had so far caused an estimated P265.3 million worth of damage on agriculture, livestock, and fisheries, said the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday.
The cherries were strongly impacted by the recent frosts in the province of Huesca. In fact, the low temperatures recorded in the early hours of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, which fell to minus three degrees in municipalities such as Bolea, could cause losses of up to 100% in many farms, according to the first estimates of the Bolea's Cherry Cooperative (Cocebo).