Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Indian Agriculture

Author:Poonam Chaudharya*, Satyandra Kumarb

Abstract:
India is the country of villages and major part of the population lives in rural areas. Agriculture and its related services are the major source of livelihood of this population. In the past few decades agriculture sector was reduced and it became a hidden unemployment of farmers and its dependent workers. The price hike in agriculture equipments, pesticides and other essential things, low price of crops, cost of living of villagers are some major problems of farmers. The income of farmers and working labours is unorganized and with very slow growth rate. The cultivation of crops and income of workers depend on seasonal regimes and natural disasters. There are many examples of natural disasters and various types of pandemics had destructed the life of these workers in last decades. All these problems caused migration of workers from rural areas to urban centers in search of better employment. This increases the load of unorganized workers or population in cities. Recently Covid-19 pandemic affected the life of each and every person in most of the part of globe. It was very severely affected the life of unorganized labour in urban areas and caused a large scale migration of workers from urban to rural areas. This migration increased the population load and unemployment in rural areas. Present study reveals the post covid-19 pandemic effect on agriculture related unorganized workers and farmers during 2019-2020.

Keywords:Key words: Agriculture, unorganized workers, migration, seasonal regimes, agriculture equipments, pesticides.

DOI:10.46333/ijtc/9/1/8

International Journal of Trade & Commerce (Vol: 9 Issue:1)