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A Brief View on Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Indian Agriculture and Rural Economy

Qiang He

The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest worldwide humanitarian challenge the world has confronted since World War II. The virus has unfolded widely, and the number of cases is rising daily as governments work to slow it’s unfolded. India had moved swiftly, implementing a proactive, nationwide, 21-day lockdown, with the intention of flattening the curve and the usage of the time to plan and useful resource responses adequately. India’s effort to combat COVID-19 virus has been praised over the globe. However, the lockdown came with an economic value and cascading impact on all the sections of society. The Covid-19 induced lockdown in India was a large economic shock. It started across the country on 24 March 2020 and is still on-going with restrictions in one shape or different. It stalled the economy with total closure imposed on enterprises over all segments. Even though agrarian exercises were exempted, in the initial stages of the lockdown the agriculture esteem chain also faced huge-scale disruptions. This had a severe detrimental impact on the rural Indian economy. The coronavirus widespread has moreover triggered a massive turn around migration from the urban to rural areas in expansive parts of the nation.