Impact of Covid-19 on Major Vegetable Markets of Gujarat
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Author: Alpesh Leua and Gautam Parmar
Author Address: Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, AABMI, NAU, Navsari-396450
Keywords: Business days, Covid-19, lockdown, price and arrival, supply chain in Covid-19 pandemic.
JEL Codes: Q10, Q11, Q13, Q18, O11.
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic had
affected the country in all aspects. Agriculture is considered as a backbone of
the Indian economy. The agriculture and allied sector are also affected in
various ways during the Covid-19 pandemic. The country called out lockdown due
to a pandemic situation, and it affected the supply chain of agricultural
produce on a larger scale. The potato, onion and tomato are the important
vegetables of food dishes in India. The present study focused on these three vegetables
for the four major vegetable markets of Gujarat, namely Ahmedabad, Surat,
Baroda and Rajkot. The data on business days, price and arrivals were collected
from the Agmark.net webpage for January-April 2019 - 2020. The study suggested
that in the major markets of Gujarat total 178.8 Cr was loss observed in
potato, tomato and onion from January to April 2020 compared to the same period
of 2019. Thus lockdown 1 and 2 impacted on business days, arrivals and price of
major commodities in major markets of Gujarat.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 16 No. 4, 2020, 648-655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/20158
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) of WoS
Scopus: Title Accepted
NAAS Score: 4.82