National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Covid-19 is recognized as one of the most tempting challenge and largest tragedy of the country after the Second World War. A novel respiratory disease has been reported in late December 2019 in Wuhan a city of Hubei province of China. The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was reported on 7th March 2020.Now,Tamil Nadu has the fourth highest number of confirmed cases in India after Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka. The objectives of the study was undertaken to know the impact of COVID 19 in various sectors of economy and area, production & productivity of major crops in Tamil Nadu by considering the data which are secondary in nature. Percent analysis was used to analyze the GDP for various sectors and growth rate was calculated for area, production and productivity of major crops using CGR. During 2019-20, the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors contributed about 12.89 per cent, 33.40 per cent and 53.67 percent respectively of total GSVA. On comparison, the Agriculture sector is not much affected. The manufacturing sector which is being severely affected due to the COVID-19. Regarding tertiary sector, the communication and other services have been increased in the pandemic situation which had an impact of increase in GSVA from 2019-20. Overall, the Gross State Value added (GSVA) had a positive growth in tertiary sector. In secondary sector, due to breakage in the distribution cycle, climatic factors and cultivation practices, the state faces a negative growth and the primary sector remains stable. Due to decline in agriculture and allied sector production, income support may be provided to farmers in general and particularly those engaged in poultry and fisheries sector. In this connection, enhancing the income support could be a good option. Opportunities for mask making, sanitizers, direct delivery of food grains, vegetables and fruits may be enhanced by SHGs and FPOs. Expanding digital infrastructure for online trading of agricultural goods.
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