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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | COVID-19 lockdown locks down farmers’ income -Mayank Aggarwal

COVID-19 lockdown locks down farmers’ income -Mayank Aggarwal

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published Published on Apr 3, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 30, 2020

-Mongabay.com

* India’s ongoing lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus is threatening the agriculture sector as it overlaps with the time of harvest.

* The lockdown has derailed harvest preparation and lack of agricultural labour to help in harvest and restrictions on transportation of produce despite being given waivers as essential services.

* Farmer leaders and agriculture experts criticised the relief package announced by the government to aid farmers impacted by the coronavirus. They also expressed fear that once the lockdown is lifted the crash in prices would severely impact the income of millions of farmers.

Bharat Patel, a farmer in village Valvada in Valsad area in Gujarat, grows chilli and brinjal on his 22-acre farm. His crops are ready for harvest but the ongoing lockdown has disrupted his plans. “Neither do I have labour to help harvest the crops nor is there a buyer to buy them,” he says in a telephonic conversation with Mongabay-India. Patel had sown the crops this January with an approximate investment of over two million rupees.

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Mongabay.com, 3 April, 2020, https://india.mongabay.com/2020/04/covid-19-lockdown-locks-down-farmers-income/


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