Impact of COVID19 on Agriculture Sector

Abstract

Abstract: COVID-19 pandemic has brought the varied modification within the Indian agricultural system extensively throughout the year. Still, within the recent quarterly GDP estimates post-COVID state of affairs showcase their strengths and resilience in Indian agriculture, to register a positive growth of three.4% throughout the fiscal year 2020–21. The sole sector that accustomed get on the positive growth of five.8% witnessed the downfall by a pair of.5 % point. During this context, we tend to aim to synthesize the impact on the Indian agricultural system viz., production, selling and consumption followed by a collection of potential ways to recover and prosper post pandemic. There area unit several Survey findings indicate that the pandemic has affected production and selling through labour and provision constraints, whereas the negative financial gain shock restricted access to markets and enlarged costs of food commodities moving the consumption pattern. There area unit even the farmers facing the high % of loans and face major money downside. The pandemic wreaked a considerable physical, social, economic and emotional disturbance on all the stakeholders of Indian agricultural system. Seizing the crisis as a chance, the state declared a raft of measures and long-pending reforms. We tend to propose associate eight strategy starting from social safety nets, family farming, monetizing buffer stock, staggered acquisition to secondary agriculture to revive and prosper post-pandemic.