CropsThai agriculture ministry figures show floods since late August have hit 42 provinces, damaging 1.31 million rai of rice and leaving 3.89 million poultry dead or missing.
WorldNearly 300mm of rain in two days in parts of Thailand's capital has left about 40 dead and thousands in more than 230 shelters, with more heavy rain forecast next week.
EnvironmentAfter a glacier collapse caused devastating floods in August, Nepal is preparing a project of about $50 million to drain Thulagi, Lower Barun, Lumding Tsho and Hongu-2 lakes through channels and install sensors and early warning.
CropsA sudden upstream surge on 10-13 September flooded eight chars of Bilmaria union in Lalpur, Natore, hitting 1,300 farmers; as the water recedes, the agriculture office has sent its damage estimate to the government.
EnvironmentThe Gandak rose above the danger mark and breached a ring dam in Areraj block of East Champaran, Bihar, flooding about a dozen villages, submerging paddy and leaving people short of drinking water and fodder.
EnvironmentFloods since 16 September have covered 41 Thai provinces and killed at least eight people, after Bangkok received 320 mm of rain in two to three days.
EnvironmentHeavy rain on 25 and 26 September flooded parts of Uttar Pradesh, killing 56 people, damaging 1,021 houses and cropland, and killing 107 livestock by the government's count.
EnvironmentThe Natural Resources Conservation Service will fund partner organisations to restore, steward and assess wetland and floodplain easements on agricultural land, with applications due on 19 November.
Flash floods and landslides damaged about 1,800 hectares of farmland, mostly paddy near harvest, and killed 5-10% of livestock in eleven municipalities.
A new IPC analysis projects 5.4 million Somalis in crisis hunger or worse from October to December, with El Niño flooding set to hit riverine and agropastoral farming communities hardest.
In Dighinala, Khagrachhari, 360 families hit by two rounds of flooding received Tk 6,000 each, a total of Tk 2.16 million.
Willie Aucamp says damage from May's floods, which hit more than 10% of the valley's citrus, runs into hundreds of millions of rand, as farmers also count the cost of foot-and-mouth disease.
Water from upstream submerged 309.59 hectares in Paba, Bagha and Godagari, including 45 ha of vegetables, 85 ha of black gram and 102 ha of turmeric; farmers at Kasba and Alimganj lost pointed gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd and early cauliflower, while the DAE says raised bunds and drainage saved abo
