Page 3 - Crop Damages

Fadnavis hits out at Maharashtra govt over crop damage assessment

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra was disinterested in helping farmers who had suffered crop loss due to heavy rains a few days ago

Vegetable prices rise up to 200%; trade blame crop damage and fuel price

The most significant rise has been registered in the price of tomato

Potato prices jump by 25% due to crop damage, frequent hailstorms

Farmers reported a massive crop damage in transit in addition to huge quantity of the potato left unharvested due to mud in the field

After a month, locusts attack again in north Gujarat harming standing crops

The problem resurfaced three days ago when locusts again arrived from desert areas of Pakistan and attacked crops in Banaskantha, district agriculture officer P K Patel said.

Urad prices surge 20% in two months on incessant floods, crop damage

Other pulses follow suit; govt allows imports and release of buffer stock to cool prices

Central team on 3-day Maharashtra visit from Nov 22 to assess crop damage

Aurangabad division is worst hit, he said, adding that soyabean and cotton are the worst hit

India's pulse imports to rise this year on rain-induced crop damage

Scenario is precarious for urad with almost half the crop damaged in major growing states, tur quota of 400,000 tonnes already exhausted

Sudden rain spares standing wheat crops in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh

The crop could be at risk if the rains return with bigger intensity in the next few days