Recent Posts Tagged With 'agricultural crop news'

• Storm thrashes kiwifruit crops

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 10:31 in agricultural crop news

  KIWI - Some Bay of Plenty kiwifruit growers are trying to salvage crops devastated by a FREAK HAIL STORM. The storm hit at about 5pm on Monday and growers say they may have lost millions of dollars of produce. "It was like someone getting a shot ...

• Not a welcome weather change for Valsad mango farmers

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 14:36 in agricultural crop news

  INDIA - MANGOES - Mango farmers of Gundlav and other villages in Valsad district are a worried lot due to extreme changes in the weather. Late flowering this season had not left them with much hope of a good harvest. Fierce storms in last two days ha...

• Rice cycles weather modern world crises

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 07:22 in agricultural crop news

  PhilippinesIndigenous farming communities have fit their lifestyle, traditions and culture to the rice they plant, and they have adjusted their rice cycles, and even some of their rituals, so that they continue to produce ample food in spite of p...