With an extended winter and spell of rain at regular intervals during the ongoing Rabi season, the key grain growing States of Punjab and Haryana are expected to reap a bumper harvest of wheat at nearly 300 lakh tonnes. For the state of Punjab, the agriculture department is expecting about 180 lakh tonnes of wheat […]
Sugar production in India’s western Maharashtra state is likely to be 10 per cent lower in the 2018-19 season than the earlier estimates of the government and industry due to deficient rain and incidence of white grub, which are expected to reduce per hectare sugarcane productivity. “The overall sugar production of the state can decline […]
India’s tea production fell 6.7 percent in July from a year ago to 151.38 million kgs as plucking fell in the top two producing states due to lower rainfall, the state-run Tea Board said. The country’s tea output in the first seven months of 2018 fell 5 percent from a year ago to 583.84 million […]
The devastating floods in Kerala have brought the state’s economy to a standstill, with tens of thousands of farmers clueless about their future, as rainwaters have destroyed yearlong plantations, hitting coffee, spices and rubber. “Preliminary findings show that nearly 1,82,000 farmers are directly affected, and nearly 28,150 hectares of farm land are submerged in flood […]
Unprecedented rains that triggered flash floods and landslides have delivered a deadly blow to several coffee planters in Karnataka, the largest producer of coffee in India. Spices like black pepper and cardamom produced in the coffee estates have also been severely hit. Not only the plantations have been washed away in the floods and landslides, […]
The pre-monsoon rains have hit Odisha in a big way, two days before the scheduled dates of arrival by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). However, the dry spell has been a matter of grave concern for the agri-nation. It is predicted that end of today, the much awaited and delayed monsoon is likely to advance […]
India’s weather office forecast normal monsoon rains this summer for most of the country, but said it expected deficient rainfall in the country’s northeast. Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 97% of the long period average (LPA) with a model error of ±4%. The LPA rainfall over […]
Spurts of heavy unseasonal rainfall coupled with high winds and hailstorms in north India this week, along with a forecast of more showers and storms in the days ahead, have put the rabi crop at risk. Crops such as wheat, maize, mustard and pulses, particularly chana, that are most severely affected are being harvested in […]
Nothing in current weather patterns indicate a difficult monsoon in India for the 2018 season, according to senior officials from the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) and those at private forecasting agency Skymet However, scientists also note, monsoon conditions do change quite fast. IMD’s latest summer update had indicated the favourable La Niña weather condition was likely to moderate […]
Estimates for total rice area and production in Bangladesh for marketing year (MY) 2017/18 (May to April), have been lowered to 11.3 million hectares and 33.1 million tons (MMT) due to heavy and prolonged rain and flooding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. In MY 2017/18, the rice import forecast is raised to 1.6 […]