The global pandemic of Covid-19 that originated in the Wuhan province of China has stretched its arms in the enire world afecing each and every sector of the economy. This has led to a fall in the world economy especially in developing countries like India. India with its apt governance has however tried its best to combat this crisis with a country wide lockdown to prevent the health implicaions. But agriculture being the backbone of the country and the GDP has been impacted in a negaive way with huge disrupions in the supply chain and cropping decisions for upcoming agricultural seasons. All these have a negaive implicaion on the farming community that is and will be undergoing heavy inancial and mental losses.
Prangya Paramita Sahoo*
Dept. of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 003), India
Suvangi Rath
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