Tag: drought

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Agricultural emergency, triggered by drought, extended for another 90 days in Uruguay

  

  More than 60% of the Uruguayan territory is suffering from extreme or severe drought in the last three months, October 2022/January 2023, according to the Uruguayan Meteorological Institute, Inumet,

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Drought in Argentina will have a great impact on agriculture production

  

  The drought affecting over half of Argentina's territory means agricultural production levels this year will be lower than during the 2021/2022 season and below the five-year average, especially for wheat.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 09:51 UTC

  Agriculture emergency in Magallanes Region because of the ongoing drought

  

  Chile's Ministry of Agriculture declared on Friday an agriculture emergency in the extreme south Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica because of the hydric deficit caused by the lack of rainfall. The decision was taken following on experts projections indicating the persistence of “meteorological and hydrologic drought conditions, both reflected in the shortfall of hydric surface and subterranean availability”

• Saturday, October 29th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Climate variability complicating crop sowing in Brazilian farming states

  

  Climate variability and excessive rainfall have delayed the planting of Brazil’s 2022/2023 soy crop, which reached 34% of the estimated area, against 24% in the previous week and 38% in the same period last year, according to a survey by AgRural released this week.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Emergency declared in Uruguay due to poor rainfalls

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Fernando Mattos Thursday announced the Government had declared a national emergency due to poor rainfalls.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:34 UTC

  Parts of Uruguay on brink of agricultural emergency due to poor rains

  

  Uruguay's Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries Minister Fernando Mattos has not ruled out declaring a national emergency due to the water deficit caused by poor rains, despite western and southern parts of the country being the most severely affected by the lack of rainfall during the winter.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Leading meteorologist forecasts dry months ahead for Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's rural producers were discouraged Tuesday after expert meteorologist Mario Bidegain forecast this year's Spring will be the third in a row with a rainfall deficit.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Two thirds of Europe threatened by the worst drought in “at least 500 years”, EC climate report

  

  The European Commission Joint Research Center has reported that two thirds of the European continent is threatened by drought, the worst “for at least 500 years”. European Commission spokesperson Johannes Bahrke said on Tuesday.

• Friday, August 19th 2022 - 22:20 UTC

  China under yellow alert over drought

  

  Chinese authorities have declared a yellow alert as the country continues to be hit by a persistent drought following weeks of high temperatures that have dried up parts of the Yangtze river, it was announced. On Beijing's scale of alerts, yellow is two notches below the most severe warning.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina and Paraguay, wheat and soybean crops victims of ongoing drought

  

  Drought is causing havoc in Argentina and Paraguay. Argentina’s wheat crop for the 2022/23 season is the most delayed in a decade, as a period of lack of rainfall and early frosts is forcing farmers to delay planting the winter crop.