User:Parag Damor

COVID-19 and Indian Agriculture.'''

COVID-19 will be create a huge impact on the agriculture sector of India. '''             All we know that lockdown is enforced since 24 march 2020. These are frightful times, where we need courage & truth as the lodestar we need to make informed decisions so COVID-19 doesn’t evolve to threaten over agriculture & food supply. Few worth knowing things are :-

Manufacture month of the agricultural product – We are talking about fertilizers, pesticides, organic fertilizers, etc. Indian agricultural field is highly depends on these fertilizers, without these the productivity of field may decreases by 50 % or product prices may rises. It will lead to scarcity of food supplies.

Farming of Vegetables - Basically peasant purchased seeds from retail shop and retailer purchased all the stuff directly through company. If there is any scarcity of vegetable seeds than green vegetable supplies will go down.

People Involvement – According to 2011 Agricultural of India, an estimated 61.5 % of the 1300 million India population is rural and depends on agriculture. The people become helpless and their earnings are stopped.

Loans –

There are two type loans any farmer borrows – one is from Banks & another is from Moneylenders. But, to avoid paper work and get easy loans peasant takes from moneylenders on high rates. Therefore: many peasants wouldn’t be able to pay debt & many wouldn’t be able to get new borrowings for further investments.

Rabi crop marketing –

Generally Rabi crops(winter crop) are marketed & sold out in month of Feb., March & April has become impossible these days. Due to this the production may be debilitate & farmers won’t be able to get money from the market.

Transportation –

In India we supply large amount of agricultural product to different regions of India or to many parts of the World. But, due to lack of transportation facilities we can’t transfer these productions or we can’t even carriage to the storehouse or cold storage.

Labour Migration-

Basically we consider labours are that section of people which go from their homeland to another for earnings. They do not have high contacts or arrangements for any kind of sinister situation. They have only one thing to do “Face the situation”.

There are many crops which are not reaped yet, they are not allowed to work due to social distancing (which is essential), hence, they started migrating. We know the example of Delhi, Bihar & all over India which will huge impact on Indian agriculture.

Food security –

Due to lockdown there are many discreet people who have stored eatables in large quantity, it will directly shorts the supply in the market. It may lead scarcity of the resources, which leads to rise in the price of the commodities.

Way Ahead –

Now a days the supply of the food stuff considered in emergency activity, But, food production is not. Yeah !! during these days we must focus on Medical & other securities. But if agriculture is continue ignored by us or govt. then after corona pandemic the another crisis is ready to attack India.