Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Srikanta Samanta Vs State of West Bengal dated 13/11/2024. The matter related to a dumping ground located near the southern boundary wall of the Nabagram Hiralal Pau College, Konnagar, Hooghly which is posing a serious environmental …
"The provinces most affected by plant pests are Cibitoke Bubanza and Rumunge of the Imbo high temperature region. The average agricultural production varies between 50% and 60%. The production average is even less than 50% in some areas of Cibitoke western province", says Salvator Sindayihebura, Director General of Agriculture. He …
Various parts of the Zambezi region have now also been overrun by the worm infestation which has sown devastation across the northern parts, from Omusati to Kavango East, since late last year. Mathews Mushabati, the chief agricultural extension officer in the region, confirmed the widespread outbreak to The Namibian yesterday, …
Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) says that about 20 million cuttings of new cassava varieties are expected to be multiplied on 1000hectares during season 2017A (started in September) and 1000hectares in 2017B (starts in February). This was announced at a recent meeting in Nyanza District that gathered cassava multipliers, representatives of …
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu ordered the air force on Wednesday to join other government agencies in an emergency operation to contain the spread of pests that have invaded maize fields in many parts of the country. The armyworms, which feast on young maize plants and are capable of wiping out …
The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is a prime noctuid pest of maize on the American continents where it has remained confined despite occasional interceptions by European quarantine services in recent years. The pest has currently become a new invasive species in West and Central Africa where outbreaks were recorded for …
Fears that climate change is triggering a coffee killing fungus which could wipe out plantations are unfounded, a new study suggests. Last month a report by The Climate Institute warned that an increase in wet and warm conditions was driving the spread of coffee leaf rust which attacks crops, causing …
Coffee could become extinct if global warming continues on its current trajectory, according to a report by The Climate Institute. By 2050, researchers said, the amount of suitable coffee farmland is expected to have halved due to rising temperatures, pests and fungi. Wild coffee is expected to be wiped from …
Scientists in Wales may have found a solution to the global chocolate crisis caused by a cocoa shortage. Bangor University researchers discovered wild mango butter can be used as an alternative to cocoa butter. Disease and crop failure made the price of cocoa butter more than double between 2005 and …
Climate change is already putting production and cost pressures on the supply of coffee in significant parts of the world’s ‘bean belt’ of coffee producing countries. Increasing temperatures and extreme weather events will cut the area suitable for production by up to 50 per cent, erode coffee quality and increase …
With the whitefly attack becoming severe in the Malwa region, a number of farmers have started uprooting their cotton crop. The failure of the second successive crop is virtually staring the farmers in the face, many of whom are not in a position to take the blow. Whitefly had ravaged …
Banana harvests in Colombia, the world's fourth-largest exporter, and other Latin American producers could be crippled by the potential arrival of a fungus which withers the crop, a top agricultural official warned on Thursday. The Fusarium wilt, popularly referred to as Panama disease, attacks the roots of plantain and several …
A Mexican federal judge banned the entry of fresh potatoes from the United States amid concerns that pests they contain may damage the environment, Mexico's Federal Judicial Council (CJF) said on Tuesday. The judge, based in Los Mochis in the northern, potato-producing state of Sinaloa, held that measures taken by …
Yusuf Ibrahim, a tomato farmer in Kano, Nigeria, has lost almost 90 percent of his crop this year to Tuta absoluta. That prices for the fruit are 15 times higher than before the outbreak of the pest is little consolation; he can’t afford to plant the corn and rice he …
Abuja — The federal government on Tuesday confirmed the six states hit by a pest called the Tomato Leaf Miner or Tuta absoluta, commonly referred to as 'Tomato Ebola.' The states are Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau and Lagos. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, revealed …
Farmers are in a dilemma whether to go for cotton damaged by whiteflies last year or prefer other crop. After the whitefly attack on cotton, farmers are wary of sowing cotton, especially the American varieties locally called “narma” which has been popular among farmers. Some farmers have opted for desi …
An Asian wasp that threatens the UK’s sweet chestnuts has been designated a high-priority tree pest for the first time. The oriental chestnut gall wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) was first found in the UK last year, in Farningham woods near Sevenoaks in Kent, and a street in St Albans in Hertfordshire. …
Climate change and globalisation are fuelling an explosion in the pests and diseases that afflict south-east Asia’s cassava crops, threatening a multi-billion dollar industry and the staple food of millions of people, a report warns. Cassava, which is originally from South America, is now south-east Asia’s third largest source of …
Having witnessed extensive damage to cotton crop due to whitefly attack last season, Punjab and Haryana are taking measures such as pushing for timely sowing of recommended crop varieties to safeguard this season’s output. Experts of agriculture departments of both States are also undertaking training programmes for growers at village …
Bialowieza Forest is the kind of place you imagine from the Grimm fairy tales. Huge firs, oaks, and ashes tower over you, woodpeckers and other birds call all around you and the guides who work there know the intimate history, and names, of many individual trees. For anyone, it is …
Hailstorm and strong winds in many parts of the state have flattened the wheat crop. Farmers have demanded a special girdawari and adequate compensation from the state government. Ranjit Singh, a marginal farmer from Gurusar village in Gidderbaha sub-division, said that the wheat crop flattened at this stage would not …
