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Agricultural Supply Chains during the
COVID-19 Lockdown: A study of market arrivals of seven
key food commodities in India
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Apr 22nd 2020, Vikas Rawal and Ankur Verma |
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article presents quantitative evidence from 1331 mandis
to show that, over the first three weeks of the COVID-19
lockdown, a large number of agricultural markets were
not operational, and in those markets that were operational,
arrivals of key agricultural commodities fell very sharply.
A disruption of 21 days in being able to sell their
crops would have resulted in massive losses to farmers,
in particular, to producers of perishable crops.
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About Authors
Vikas Rawal (vikasrawal@gmail.com)
and Ankur Verma (ankurv986@gmail.com)
are affiliated with the Centre for Economic Studies
and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Recommended Citation
Rawal, Vikas and Verma, Ankur (2020), "Agricultural
Supply Chains during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study
of Market Arrivals of Seven Key Food Commodities",
SSER Monograph 20/1, Society for Social and Economic
Research, New Delhi (available at:
http://archive.indianstatistics.org/sserwp/sserwp2001.pdf) |
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