Category Vegetation Alert

Mega hail storm wreaks havoc on orchards in Tasman, New Zealand

Hailstones as big as golf balls fell on the Tasman coast from Mapua to Riwaka from 7pm, before hitting Motueka and the Lower Moutere valley.   Orchardists were still surveying the damage but apple, pear and kiwifruit crops will be…

Apocalyptic hailstorm damages paddy worth millions in Nepal

Paddy worth more than Rs 110 million is estimated to have been damaged in a downpour accompanied by hailstorm two weeks ago in Khotang.   According to the preliminary statistics of district agriculture development office, the heavy rainfall with hailstorm…

Severe Drought Threatens Growth as Cattle Die, Crops Fail In Ethiopia

Saado Osman straps two bulging sacks of United Nations wheat to her donkey, one of the few animals the 70-year-old eastern Ethiopian herder has left since the rains stopped.   Like millions of others in the Horn of Africa nation…

Fierce hailstorms hits La Rioja grape harvest very hard; Mudslide strikes San Asensio, Spain

The village of San Asensio in La Rioja lies buried under a mudslide    Just a couple of days after the grape harvest began in the wine-producing region of La Rioja the area was hit by cataclysmic hailstorms on Monday…

Devastating hailstorm wipes out crops due for harvest in Holland

For a long time, fruit growers in the Netherlands seemed to manage to evade the hail, but last night – right before the harvest – severe weather passed over the country from the southwest to the northeast, with heavy local…

Severe hailstorm devastates 2,000 ha Kakheti vineyards in Georgia

Hailstorm devastated vineyards in Kakheti (Kvareli Municipality) Over dozen villages of wine-producing Kvareli Municipality, Kakheti province, were hit by a severe hailstorm overnight on Thursday almost totally devastating harvest in the affected territory, damaging houses and vehicles and tearing down…

Severe drought and heatwave hits Germany’s harvest very hard

This year’s grain, fruit and vegetable harvests in Germany have been reduced by droughts in key areas and by the long summer heatwave, the national farmers’ association DBV said on Tuesday.   “The severe drought seen in large parts of…