In a creative approach, farmers in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh were wearing bear costumes to fields to protect their crops from monkey.
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Unseasonal rains and hailstorms have damaged ripening, winter-planted crops such as wheat in India's fertile northern, central and western plains, exposing thousands of farmers...
However, the Sindh government has stepped back from its previous insurance plan by utilising its own funds and decided to get insurance of the crops from commercial banks and insurance companies.
The locusts have attacked standing crops of wheat, mustard and potatoes on hundreds of acres farmlands in Kumair, Harappa, Bangla, Cheechawatani and other areas of the region.
Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul on Wednesday said that the government was committed to mitigate negative effects of climate change on crops.
In an unprecedented move to facilitate growers, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Thursday said that farmers will be directly paid the price of wheat, sugarcane and other crops.
MIAMI: Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable...
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Saturday said that PPP would fully participate with the peasants in their protest because the federal government has ruined the country’s agriculture and the growers of crops in past three years.
WASHINGTON: Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank warned in a disturbing new report Sunday.
DHAKA: Heavy flooding across Bangladesh has forced thousands of people from their homes and caused severe damage to crops, with officials on Tuesday warning the situation could worsen as floodwaters poured into the capital, Dhaka.