Opinion Article - (2022) Volume 13, Issue 2

Heat Waves and Drought Costs for Global Crop Production
James Harry*
 
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
 
*Correspondence: James Harry, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Email:

Received: 02-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. JFPT-22-16033; Editor assigned: 04-Feb-2022, Pre QC No. JFPT-22-16033 (PQ); Reviewed: 18-Feb-2022, QC No. JFPT-22-16033; Revised: 25-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. JFPT-22-16033 (R); Published: 02-Mar-2022, DOI: 10.4172/2157-7110.22.13.919

About the Study

Heat waves and drought are important risks for global harvest production, and quantification of the scope of this risk is essential for assessment of insurance and reduction of disaster risk. Here we estimate the cumulative manufacturing losses of six important commodity businesses below each intense warmness and drought events, throughout 131 countries, over the term of 1961-2014. Our outcomes display good sized version in countrywide catastrophe dangers which have hitherto long past unrecognized in nearby and international common estimates. The maximum extreme losses are represented with the aid of using cereal losses in Angola (4.1%), Botswana (five.7%), USA (4.4%) and Australia (4.4%), oil crop losses in Paraguay (5.5%), pulse losses in Angola (4.7%) and Nigeria (4.8%), and root and tuber losses in Thailand (3.2%). In economic phrases we estimate the worldwide manufacturing loss over this era to be $237 billion US Dollars (2004-2006 baseline). The international locations that incurred the biggest economic hits have been the USA ($116 billion), the previous Soviet Union ($37 billion), India ($28 billion), China ($10.7 billion) and Australia ($8.5 billion USD). Our analysis includes an important gap about the impact of extreme weather events for global crop production, providing a basis for reducing rural disaster risk. Human driving has reliable evidence that climate change leads to an extreme climate event severity and frequency increase. However, agricultural risks related to these extreme events are not only those functions. We are still surprising to determine agricultural risk under extreme weather disasters as the main factor of this risk in addition, we do not know most about the impact of large disaster events on harvest production. There are at least three agendas for setting the knowledge gap that needs to be filled. First, the previous work is averaged at the regional level to average the impact of these events. Scientific initiatives need to evaluate the risk of urban areas to align the international disaster risk efforts (eg, information). Second, the average loss determines the inventory requirements of existing events, but there is no complete risk that is essentially dependent on disaster recovery time. Third, grain is a general focus on global analysis of the climate, the difference in production area, and the difference between the new focus of the diet, and the climate disaster risk profile evaluates through various raw materials groups. It suggests that it must be. Here we try to meet these three knowledge gaps by appreciating the cumulative effects of nationally reported extreme heat and dry catastrophes, which occur in 131 countries on the productivity of six major raw material groups (cereals, oil cultures, impulses, roots and tubers, vegetables and in 1961-2014). After a previous job, use catastrophic data from the EMDAT credit database, and harvest production and value time series of United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. Estimate domestic production variance during heat and drought disasters in each country and commodities compared to a disaster-free counter fact model. Then use past simulations to find the zero distribution of production variance in each country in years other than catastrophe. This methodology provides new insights into countries that show unusual discrepancies in crop production in the years when extreme weather is reported. In addition to calculating the effects of heat and drought disasters, we also identify the global cost of these losses financially and the profile of financial losses in all countries that have experienced significant production fluctuations. In summary, our analysis provides the first global country-level overview of cumulative losses associated with drought and heat events across different product types, as well as the first monetary assessment of these losses. This work further integrates scientific risk assessment into the international disaster risk response profiling initiative, supports proactive actions to prevent future losses, and supports the development of more resilient global agricultural systems.

Citation: Harry J (2022) Heat Waves and Drought Costs for Global Crop Production. J Food Process Technol. 13:919.

Copyright: © 2022 Harry J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.