Impact of Pandemic Covid-19 on Vegetable Marketing in Punjab: An Analysis of Prices and Arrivals


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Author: Jaspal Singh , Tanima Dutta , Mandeep Bharadwaj , Anupama Rawat and Nirmal Singh

Author Address: Consultant, Niti Aayog, New Delhi -110001, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-144411 (Punjab), OSD, Government of Madhya Pradesh, and Research Scholar, Barkatullah University, Bhop

Keywords: Agricultural marketing, agriculture, arrival, price

JEL Codes: Q13, Q18.


Abstract

Covid-19 has had a very massive impact on the lives of the people and the economy. This study attempted to look at the vegetable markets in Punjab for 14 weeks, from the first week of March to the second week of June . The data were 2020 collected for four main vegetables of the Rabi crop, namely capsicum, bottle gourd, brinjal, and potato, for which the data was taken from the agmarknet website. A total of 115 mandis were covered, and the data for arrivals and prices were taken for this period. The results showed that leaving bottle gourd, the output for all the other three crops went down. In the case of bottle guard, the arrival went up by 10.6 percent, whereas for brinjal, it went down by 30.1 percent, capsicum by 16.5 percent, and potato by 44.4 percent. The weighted average for the price was taken to calculate the loss from the sales. It was noticed that in absolute terms, the loss was to the tune of 23.8 crores than the previous year. A look at the total traded volume for this period, and the loss came out to be around 23.5 percent of the losses have just come from these four crops.


Description

Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 17 No. 2, 2021, 331-338

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/20215
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) of WoS
Scopus: Title Accepted
NAAS Score: 5.15