What Are The More Common Meteorological Disasters In Agriculture? How Can Farmers Prevent Themselves From Getting Hit?
It is said that farming is a “heavenly harvest”. Since ancient times, those engaged in agriculture, especially traditional agriculture, are greatly affected by the weather. Then, what are the common meteorological disasters in agriculture?
As everybody knows, the crops grow in a certain weather conditions to complete the process, any bad weather may cause bad effect, such as typhoon, flood, drought, frost, hail, dry hot wind, etc., which can let agricultural catastrophic losses, the cause of the disaster and countermeasures, mainly as follows:
- Cold and frost
This is the minimum temperature at which crops suddenly experience normal growth, resulting in severe damage to certain plant tissues, resulting in reduced or even lost production.
Solution: when crops suffer from chilling injury and freezing injury, farmers should immediately adopt irrigation method. Daily drainage and night irrigation can increase soil temperature without freezing. In addition, water spraying and fertilizer application can also be carried out, or water surface warming agent and red phosphorus fog heating can be used.When farmers know in advance that they need to cool down, they can also take various preventive measures, such as increasing temperature by physical and chemical methods such as fumigation, spraying, shelterbelt and covering, so as to reduce the harm.
- Dry and hot weather
No rain for a long time or a very scarce rainfall, causing the soil water, plants, water shortage in the dry air also exacerbate disasters, especially at this time also prone to hot dry wind, high temperature and low humidity, wind speed of wind on affect normal growth and development, resulting in the production, serious crop will die failures.
Solution: build water conservancy, do well farmland capital construction, you’d better use again spray irrigation, drip irrigation and other water-saving irrigation technology, conditional still can undertake artificial rain job, if dry hot wind appears, we can use a few chemical reagent to reduce harmness.
- The typhoon &flood
Long periods of rain and heavy rainfall caused by typhoons can easily cause damage to plants and, in severe cases, to crops.
Solution: build reservoirs, DAMS and other water conservancy projects to reduce flood disasters, pay attention to planting trees and protecting vegetation, reduce soil erosion, and establish reasonable drainage and irrigation systems.
This article is contributed by Beidou Overseas Business Dept.We’d like post most to any farmers and help them to know more about their farm and soil.
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