The impact of epidemics on agricultural production and forecast of COVID-19

Zhang, Shurui; Wang, Shuo; Yuan, Lingran; Liu, Xiaoguang; Gong, Binlei

doi:10.1108/caer-04-2020-0055

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“…Many agricultural industries around the world have witnessed serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including two Asian major economies, China and India [ 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 ]. The countries affected by COVID-19 were compelled to rethink and amend their food and agriculture strategies in order to ensure that public food sources remained sufficient and accessible.…”

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Investigation of COVID-19 Impact on the Food and Beverages Industry: China and India Perspective

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Pawase²,

Pavase

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Foods

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The sudden breakout of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rapidly spread across the globe, leaving no country behind in being affected by the global pandemic in the year 2019–20. As COVID-19 commenced, within months two major Asian giants initiated the norms of social distancing and lockdowns in their societies. The indiscriminate nature of the current pandemic has not only impacted the health and quality of life of people but has also disrupted the global economy, supply chains, and countries all over the world. In food and beverage manufacturing industries, the unanticipated disruption has encumbered its lock on the global food supply chain and service sector as major cities shut down for several months in China and India. Human existence is dependent upon food, which renders energy for activity, growth, and all functions of the body. Although both China and India have shown eminent response to tackle the ongoing pandemic, the food supply chain remains vastly exposed to significant COVID-19 risks. This research primarily investigates the ongoing COVID-19 scenario in two major economies (China and India), delivering insight into the pandemic’s impact within the food and beverage manufacturing sectors, and explores the policies adopted and strategies undertaken for sustainability in food supply chains.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation of COVID-19 Impact on the Food and Beverages Industry: China and India Perspective

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Pawase²,

Pavase

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Foods

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“…The COVID-19 has impacted the global economy significantly including India. Few of the recent researches have tried to analyze the implications of COVID-19 pandemics on agricultural productions and supply chain globally (Pu & Zhong, 2020;Kumar, Padhee, & Kumar, 2020;Gillespie, 2020;Galanakis, 2020;Singh & Neog, 2020;Solomon, Pratap, & Swapna, 2020;Weersink, von Massow, & McDougall, 2020;Sharma, Talan, & Jain, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020). Pu and Zhong (2020) argued that unreasonable restrictions would block the outflow channels of agricultural products, hinder necessary production inputs, destroy production cycles, and finally undermine production capacity and suggested that there is a need to ensure effective logistics for agricultural products, ensure effective supply of critical inputs, provide various supports to agricultural production and farmers and make use of innovative methods to promote sales such as e-tailing.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural wholesale prices in India: A comparative analysis across the phases of the lockdown

Ali

Khan

2020

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This paper attempts to analyse the impact of COVID‐19 lockdown on wholesale prices of the agricultural commodities particularly fruits and vegetables in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. This study is based on the daily data collected from AGMARKNET of all major agricultural markets under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC). The difference in weighted wholesale prices has been analysed before and during COVID‐19 and across various phases of the lockdown. The analysis of the difference in the weighted average wholesale prices across markets and commodities has shown a mixed response. The most hydrating perishable fresh fruits and vegetables with high water content have faced a significant decline in wholesale prices during the lockdown. On the contrary, other perishable fruits and vegetables have realized a gain in the average wholesale prices. The weighted average wholesale price has also declined over the phases of the lockdown. This study provides timely feedback for preparing all the stakeholders of the agricultural marketing chain to understand and formulate coping strategies to make the system resilient.

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“…As a means to document the existing situation in the agricultural sector, predicting the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggesting measures to mitigate them, several studies have been conducted. Some of them analyzed solely the impact of the virus on agricultural production regarding the first infected by COVID-19 countries, namely China [18,19] and later Italy [7,[20][21][22]. In contrast, some studies dealt with the agricultural sector of countries, which were later infected by the viral pandemic, including countries from the rest of Asia (India [23,24] and Iran [25]), Oceania (Australia [26] and New Zealand [27]), Europe (rest of EU [5,28] and the United Kingdom (UK) [29]) as well as America (Argentine [30], Peru [31], Canada [32][33][34][35][36] and the US [14,37,38]).…”

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Agricultural Workforce Crisis in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 and the restrictive measures towards containing the spread of its infections have seriously affected the agricultural workforce and jeopardized food security. The present study aims at assessing the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on agricultural labor and suggesting strategies to mitigate them. To this end, after an introduction to the pandemic background, the negative consequences on agriculture and the existing mitigation policies, risks to the agricultural workers were benchmarked across the United States’ Standard Occupational Classification system. The individual tasks associated with each occupation in agricultural production were evaluated on the basis of potential COVID-19 infection risk. As criteria, the most prevalent virus transmission mechanisms were considered, namely the possibility of touching contaminated surfaces and the close proximity of workers. The higher risk occupations within the sector were identified, which facilitates the allocation of worker protection resources to the occupations where they are most needed. In particular, the results demonstrated that 50% of the agricultural workforce and 54% of the workers’ annual income are at moderate to high risk. As a consequence, a series of control measures need to be adopted so as to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the sector as well as protect farmers including physical distancing, hygiene practices, and personal protection equipment.

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The impact of epidemics on agricultural production and forecast of COVID-19

Cited by 81 publications

References 39 publications

Investigation of COVID-19 Impact on the Food and Beverages Industry: China and India Perspective

Investigation of COVID-19 Impact on the Food and Beverages Industry: China and India Perspective

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural wholesale prices in India: A comparative analysis across the phases of the lockdown

Agricultural Workforce Crisis in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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