Monitoring crop damage can be challenging. Taking into account changes in climate events, weather patterns, and land management to better assess and predict crop yield, isn’t so simple either.
For most of the summer last year, she spent her day chasing away monkeys from her family farm in Durganagar, Putalibazaar Municipality-1, Syangja.
A day after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann handed over compensation cheques to cotton farmers whose crop was damaged due to the pink bollworm attack, BJP leader Nimisha Mehta today questioned the “double standards” of the AAP government in disbursing relief to farmers.
Farmers have urged the state government to increase power supply to agriculture feeders as they are finding it difficult to save their late-sown wheat crop amid the ongoing dry spell.
The persistent rainfall may end up causing serious damage to some crops in the Region of Valencia - especially citrus fruits, vegetables, stone fruits and almonds - due to the impact of excess moisture on farms, fungal diseases and the interruption of the tasks to ensure the proper development of the productions.
A decision by farmers of Kotholi-Madivayal Padasekharam in Pilicode grama panchayat in the district to cultivate Manu Varna variety of rice developed by the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) in 2019, has turned sour as they suffered a huge yield loss due to rice blast, a fungal disease affecting paddy.
After a month since heavy falls first halted harvest operations, Darling Downs growers were just experiencing some welcome sunshine when another weather system, bringing over 100mm of rain, fell over the weekend bringing further delays to farmers in the district.
The end of winter in the U.S. is getting more dangerous for food growers – and that could be another risk for food prices.
As Russia continues its military assault on Ukraine, Ukraine’s agriculture minister warned that its spring crop, and even next year’s harvest, could be halved, hampering its ability to continue to function as a major global agriculture producer and exporter.
Counties in the north state are conducting disaster assessment reports next week to evaluate almond and prune crop damage from freezing temperatures that occurred in February.
Strong winds damaged over 1,000 standing banana crops in Bhavani taluk on Wednesday evening as farmers wanted the State government to provide compensation for the loss incurred.
The Ministry of Agriculture systematically monitors the climate situation and takes all necessary measures to mitigate emerging risks. Taking into account the harsh and unpredictable climatic conditions of Kazakhstan, insurance is one of the effective tools for protecting the interests of agricultural producers from dangerous events.
Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) has approved Florida’s disaster designation request for 17 counties and 10 contiguous counties impacted by freezing temperatures that affected the state’s agricultural community in the last week of January.
he industry loss to insurance and reinsurance markets from March 2021’s severe flooding that affected New South Wales and Queensland, Australia has been revised down again by PERILS AG, with the total falling to just A$688 million according to the firm.
Figures released in the Ministry of Primary Industries’ (MPI) and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research’s NZ Colony Loss Survey (NZCLS) 2022 show that apiaries in the top of the South Island lost 14 per cent - 21,962 - bee colonies in the winter of 2021.