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The COVID-19 Induced Disruptions across Groundnut Value Chain: Empirical Evidence from South India

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11714/
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041707
doi:10.3390/su13041707
 
Title The COVID-19 Induced Disruptions across Groundnut Value Chain: Empirical Evidence from South India
 
Creator Nandi, R
Nedumaran, S
Selvaraj, A
Mazumdar, S D
Shalander, K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Groundnut
India
Value Chains
 
Description We study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the groundnut value chain and all the
actors involved in its value chain in Ananthapuramu district of Andhra Pradesh, a leading groundnut
producing state in south India. The results revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic created a double
burden on farmers by disrupting farm production on one side and decreased diet diversity on the
other. Disruption in farm productions resulted in a decline in household income and increased
consumer food prices. The effect on farmers snowballed to other actors in the value chain, and all the
actors were affected variably. Availability of storage infrastructure would have saved the farmer’s
household income to some extent during the pandemic. Supply of diverse nutrient foods through the
existing public distribution system, which mostly provides wheat and rice, might have helped tackle
the diet diversity issue amongst farmers. Farmer’s collectives were perceived to reduce the negative
impact during natural disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic by helping to organise smallholder
farmers, minimise transaction costs and increase their bargaining power. In addition, effective farm
extension services, including market information, could have benefited farmers during the crisis.
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2021-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11714/1/sustainability-13-01707.pdf
Nandi, R and Nedumaran, S and Selvaraj, A and Mazumdar, S D and Shalander, K (2021) The COVID-19 Induced Disruptions across Groundnut Value Chain: Empirical Evidence from South India. Sustainability (TSI), 13 (4). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2071-1050