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Food and agriculture during a pandemic: Managing the consequences -Sudha Narayanan

-IdeasforIndia.in

In this post, Sudha Narayanan provides a sense of current bottlenecks in the supply chains of food and agricultural produce, and makes recommendations for government action to get these back on track quickly.

A critical fallout of the lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic has been a combination of confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety for farmers and consumers alike as to what lies in store in the coming weeks.

There are reports from several states of closure of APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) mandis, leaving farmers stuck with their harvests.Reports of police extortion of traders transporting produce have surfaced in a few states; in others, truckers have been fined upto Rs.12,000 for plying supposedly in violation of the lockdown.At least one Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) in Karnataka has been pushed to suspend its activities. States such as Gujarat have gone further and announced suspension of government procurement operations altogether. Coming at the peak of rabi (winter) harvest,these collectively spell doom not just for the farmers but also informal workers involved in the supply chain of these commodities.

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