Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak affects almost all sectors of farmers’ life. The lockdown policy has resulted in limited movement of farmers in carrying out social and economic activities. This study aims to identify those difficulties for horticultural farmers’ households during the COVID-19 outbreak and analyze its impact on household income. We had carried out an online household survey, for data collection by interviewing 86 horticulture farmers, who were randomly sampled in two horticulture production centers in Tanah Datar District. We found that almost 50% of farmers are having difficulty accessing agricultural inputs during the pandemic, such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. This happened because of implementing a lockdown policy., which disrupts farmers’ smooth access to farm inputs. However, although almost half of the farmers have difficulty accessing farm inputs, the regression results show that the COVID-19 outbreak does not significantly affect household income. Based on our research, 96.5% of farmers were still farming and 55.8% of them were still working in the fields as usual. The difficulty for horticultural farmer’s households during the Covid-19 outbreak was increasing household expenditure such as for communication, health, education, and social/religion. They have to use household savings to overcome.
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