Cargando…

Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have substantial effects on the livelihood of people, but smallholder vegetables growers will be even more affected because of the perishability nature of the product. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Bangladesh on 8th March, 2020 and cons...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alam, G. M. Monirul, Khatun, Most Nilufa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7949487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33667256
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248120
_version_ 1783663518415847424
author Alam, G. M. Monirul
Khatun, Most Nilufa
author_facet Alam, G. M. Monirul
Khatun, Most Nilufa
author_sort Alam, G. M. Monirul
collection PubMed
description In Bangladesh, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have substantial effects on the livelihood of people, but smallholder vegetables growers will be even more affected because of the perishability nature of the product. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Bangladesh on 8th March, 2020 and consequently the country went into lockdown on 26 March, 2020. This study has made a survey of vegetables farmers through a mobile phone to understand the impact of COVID-19 on vegetables supply chain, gross margin and the future production plan of the growers. In Bangladesh, the lockdown has disrupted the food supply chain and increases the likelihood of food insecurity. Lockdown has impeded vegetable farmers’ access to markets, thus limiting their productive and sales capacities. The price of yield has dropped by more than half resulting in huge loss for vegetable growers. The loss incurred by the farmers for producing Brinjal, Cucumber, Pointed gourd, Yardlong beans and Bottle gourd are BDT 4900, BDT 10900, BDT 57400, BDT 52500 and BDT 18500 per acre respectively as a result of COVID-19. The decreased income increases farmers’ likelihood of vulnerability and food insecurity and poses a challenge to continued produce. ‘Cash support’ is more important than ‘food support’ in order to keep vegetable farmers in farming, to ensure a ready supply of necessary low-cost resources, and to help fight against the upcoming food shortage.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7949487
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-79494872021-03-22 Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh Alam, G. M. Monirul Khatun, Most Nilufa PLoS One Research Article In Bangladesh, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have substantial effects on the livelihood of people, but smallholder vegetables growers will be even more affected because of the perishability nature of the product. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Bangladesh on 8th March, 2020 and consequently the country went into lockdown on 26 March, 2020. This study has made a survey of vegetables farmers through a mobile phone to understand the impact of COVID-19 on vegetables supply chain, gross margin and the future production plan of the growers. In Bangladesh, the lockdown has disrupted the food supply chain and increases the likelihood of food insecurity. Lockdown has impeded vegetable farmers’ access to markets, thus limiting their productive and sales capacities. The price of yield has dropped by more than half resulting in huge loss for vegetable growers. The loss incurred by the farmers for producing Brinjal, Cucumber, Pointed gourd, Yardlong beans and Bottle gourd are BDT 4900, BDT 10900, BDT 57400, BDT 52500 and BDT 18500 per acre respectively as a result of COVID-19. The decreased income increases farmers’ likelihood of vulnerability and food insecurity and poses a challenge to continued produce. ‘Cash support’ is more important than ‘food support’ in order to keep vegetable farmers in farming, to ensure a ready supply of necessary low-cost resources, and to help fight against the upcoming food shortage. Public Library of Science 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7949487/ /pubmed/33667256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248120 Text en © 2021 Alam, Khatun http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Alam, G. M. Monirul
Khatun, Most Nilufa
Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title_full Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title_short Impact of COVID-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh
title_sort impact of covid-19 on vegetable supply chain and food security: empirical evidence from bangladesh
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7949487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33667256
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248120
work_keys_str_mv AT alamgmmonirul impactofcovid19onvegetablesupplychainandfoodsecurityempiricalevidencefrombangladesh
AT khatunmostnilufa impactofcovid19onvegetablesupplychainandfoodsecurityempiricalevidencefrombangladesh