Authors : Balasaheb Kalhapure
Page Nos : 146-151
Description :
COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the Indian agricultural farming sector extensively. Nevertheless, the recent quarterly GDP estimates post-COVID scenario showcase robustness and resilience in Indian agriculture, the sole sector to register a positive growth of three.4% during the twelvemonth (FY here after) 2020–21 (Quarter 1: April 2020 to June 2020). At the identical time, the immediate past quarter growth was estimated at 5.9% witnessing a decline by 2.5% point. during this context, we aim to synthesize the first evidence of the COVID-19 impact on the Indian agricultural Farming sector viz., framers, labor,production, marketing and consumption followed by a group of potential strategies to recover and prosper post-pandemic. Survey findings indicate that the pandemic has affected farmer, production and marketing through labor and logistical constraints, while the negative income shock restricted access to markets and increased prices of food commodities affecting the consumption pattern. The pandemic wreaked a considerable physical, social, economic and emotional havoc on all the stakeholders of Indian agricultural farming. Seizing the crisis as a chance, the state announced a raft of measures and long-pending reforms. We propose some point strategy starting from social safety nets, family farming, monetizing buffer stock, staggered procurement to secondary agriculture to revive and prosper post-pandemic.
