Droughts

All is not well in cranberry country this harvesting season, the 200th anniversary of the world's first known commercial cultivation.

Floods, drought, frost and hail cut into world wine production this year across Europe and South America, but the quality of the 2016 vintage shouldn't unduly suffer.

Some 600,000 people are short of food in Burundi due to drought and flooding in the past year and the number could rise to 700,000 by next year, a World Food Programme official said.

India's wheat stocks in April next year, when the new season begins, are likely to be at their lowest levels in more than a decade after two successive droughts sapped the soil of moisture and ...

Prajakta launched the initiative on 16th April 2016, within a few days the initiative picked up on its own.

"This isn't so much a harvest, as a hunt for grapes," said French winemaker Jean-Jacques Robert, with a rueful laugh as he unloaded grapes still warm from his vineyards around Fuisse in Burgundy.

The United Nations says farmers in southern Madagascar urgently need support ahead of the year-end crop-planting season to offset the devastating impact of years of drought.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from 13 drought-affected states as to why they were not lifting enough food grain to made available at subsidised rates to the priority and vulnerable sections of the ...

Prices of many foodstuffs such as pulses, sugar, vegetables and poultry products are set to surge in India.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said his government would work to make the state "100 per cent mosquito-free" in the next two years.