The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture

This chapter, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture,” describes the situation, that agriculture plays a vital role in foodfood supplysupply and its sustainabilitysustainability for all countries, irrespective of their developmentdevelopment level. The agricultural sector consists of the entire food chain, from farm to fork. As COVID-19 has had enormous effects on the entire sector, all these steps should be considered to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture. After the pandemic, governments have taken precautions to different extents, such as the lockdownlockdown of public places, putting some regions in quarantinequarantine, or imposing restrictions on domestic and/or international traveltravel, which changes the food demand in the population. The stocks were run out for a while in many countries, and the food industry has to face this crisiscrisis. Also, agriculture uses manpower for many productionproduction steps depending on countries. However, after the pandemic, firms have slogged to find labor, and also they needed to take precautions to spread coronaviruscoronavirus in managements. This also affected cost and processing procedures. This situation led countries to one of two scenarios; the first one is increasing the international relationships and make easy to overcome this kind of crisis, and the second one is to obtain their food supply chain. In this chapter, the effects of COVID-19 on the entire agricultural production and supply chain will be discussed.