Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Agriculture

The article discusses the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown on agriculture in India, highlighting farmers’ struggles to access seeds, fertilizers, and essential services. It urges practical government solutions to safeguard rural livelihoods and food security, balancing virus prevention with continuity of farm work, especially for tribal and village-based communities directly reliant on timely agricultural activities.

“Country Captive” #Lockout has some important questions and solutions of the country’s farm and barns: – *

Yesterday morning, a shopkeeper was fined two thousand for the crime of breaking lock-down (which I call a country bandh) in Kondagaon, a small town in Chhattisgarh, and a receipt was also deducted. We all felt that this was a good and necessary action, people also praised this action. This incident may sound very normal, but if the Maharaja can see its implications in the context of agriculture of the entire country, then this phenomenon is not common.

The shopkeeper who was fined was actually a small farmer-center, that is, a small store of fertilizers, seeds, medicines, agricultural implements, where in the early morning yesterday, some farmers of the nearby village had compost-medicines, seeds etc. The farmers had come to pick up, certainly these farmers must have been the old customers and acquaintances of the shop and at the request of those farmers, the shopkeeper would have risked opening the shop and giving them seed manure medicine on this morning.

Now we come to the announcement of the twenty-one day lock-out of the Hon’ble Prime Minister, in this context, first of all we would like to say that we not only support every announcement of the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister, the Central Government and the State Government, Rather, they are also following 100%, and will definitely do so further. But we believe that there are definitely some important points in the context of this lock-out, which is very important in the interest of the country.

I do not know whether these things will reach our honorable Prime Minister #PMONarendraModi ji Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel ji #BhupeshBaghel ji or related high officials. I do not even know whether my words, directly related to this post of mine, will reach the crores of peasant brothers of the country who are going to be directly affected in these 21 days directly, because most of our peasant brothers are on the internet, Nowhere else on social media, and newspapers will come out in the coming days and reach us or not, and that these newspapers are also protected from the untouchability of Corona-virus. Whether or not they will be saved is not clear, like many other things. No educated intelligent person can deny the horrors of the Corona epidemic and its associated dangers. But this should not be overlooked with the proper rescue and other important aspects related to the life of villages and farmers.

As in the declaration of Hon’ble Prime Minister, food in the food plate of 100% of the population of this country, and about the system of basic agriculture and farmers in the employment of the population employing about sixty percent of the population directly or indirectly. Even the words were disappointing.

  • In these twenty-one days, the farmers and their families in the villages of the country should not go to the farmyard adjacent to their own house and also to their fields, to take care of their crops and also to keep the work in the fields completely
  • If the farmer has been willing to cut the standing crop ready to be harvested in the fields after working hard throughout the year, keeping the safe in the barn (keeping all the necessary precautions to protect against coronaviruses) ) Do not get out of the house ??

And in the meantime if rain, water, diseases, animals cause damage to those crops, then the people of the country will not die of starvation and starvation instead of dying of corona virus?

  • There is a saying that “everything else in the world can of course wait except for agriculture”, then what will happen to the fields and other seeds and plants that the farmers have prepared to How will farmers get compost anf seeds? Meanwhile, what will be the arrangement for irrigation of crops?

Is this not necessary for the country?

We believe that the Prime Minister said in this, all these tasks can be done well, keeping adequate and more than enough “social distancing”. On the lines of what happened, we do not say that one month What was to be done by the government first, or that, what had to be done 15 days ago, it happened or it was meant to happen but it did not happen, but one thing is beyond comprehension, that the entire country is locked up

If, instead of speaking out at 8:00 pm on the lines of demonetisation and implementing it from 12:00 pm, it could have been done in a proper manner by taking sufficient preparations at every level, taking the public into confidence, Here I would like to note that the lock-out was done in South Africa as well, but the citizens of that place were given 2 days for adequate preparation. Because immediately after making such an announcement, the majority of people followed the instructions and went to the market to shop for goods in a hurry and the entire hard work of the public curfew social distance for the last 4 – 5 days got in the mud.

  • – Farmers who have set up flowers, spices, medicinal plants, expensive poli houses, net houses, nurseries, and plant houses by taking huge loans from banks, these small and fragile plants are very important for daily manure, water, It happens, and if the manure and water are not given, then of course their entire crops are set to collapse.Why no practical safe alternative can be suggested for these also.

Can the supply of fertilizers, seeds, medicines, etc. be continued during this period with safety and safety precautions being taken? At least farmers and family members of farmers can be allowed to work by giving the necessary small training and understanding to work in the fields, making proper distance between them. Anyway, when you blockade the cities, the possibility of any outsider reaching the village will be eliminated.

Similarly, arrangements for irrigation, and maintenance of small houses, and small plants of all nurseries that die soon without water scarcity can also be ensured.

* In respect of all these points related to agriculture, clear guidelines should be given by the government in the immediate interest of the country.

  • – Mahua, Mango,Tamarind,Tendupatta, is the prime time to collect tribal communities living in Bastar and other similar forest This is the time of a few days throughout the year, when these families get out of their homes, they can get employment to run their family for the whole year from their traditional food providers forests. In the villages where no person has come from outside, it would be appropriate to at least identify them and give a suitable solution to those * forest dwellers.
  • – The State Governments are talking about giving aid to the daily wage laborers living in the cities, rata, khomchas, rations and cash relief, but the unregistered laborers of the cities and majority of the agricultural laborers living in the village who dug wells and drink water every day ,What will be the solution regarding their employment, it is also necessary to think.
  • – Overall, the urgent need of the hour is that the government should come out with such practical solutions as per the regional conditions at the above points, to ensure that all the safety and prevention instructions are strictly followed from the scientific point of view to prevent the corona ‘Even the snake dies and the sticks do not break’, and by making the public aware of it, by giving them the necessary training, they believe With this, it can be easily achieved. Because we all aim to prevent the Corona epidemic from causing more casualties in our country, the country should also be protected from severe long-term losses from this period of captivity.And in this work, in this war of war against the corona epidemic, we all stand firmly with every decision and instructions of the country and government in letter and spirit.

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