Covid 19 Pandemic: Misery of Local Farmers in Darjeeling Hills

By : Prantik Hazra, Shuvam Sharma, Arghya Ghosh

Page No: 75-79

Abstract 
India had made an early move to constrain the spread of COVID 19, requesting a 21 day across the country lockdown for its population 1.3 billion persons beginning March 25th 2020. The progressing wellbeing emergency had influenced various society including agriculture and farming. This paper represents the effect of lockdown on hill agriculture especially the agricultural business performed by the native peoples of Darjeeling hills who are basically the daily labours. Soils of hills are not suitable for performing agriculture so easily like plain lands and non-application of synthetic pesticides makes hill agriculture so tough. The survey work was divided into two parts one containing period before the lockdown and another lockdown period as well as the unlock phases. Outcome of this report reveals that there was a significant loss to the farmers during the lockdown and unlock phases, especially due to failure of selling the products. Although government has taken several steps to combat this situation, but the crisis is yet unsolved.

Authors :
Prantik Hazra : U.G. & P.G. Department of Zoology, Darjeeling Government College.
Shuvam Sharma : U.G. & P.G. Department of Zoology, Darjeeling Government College.
Arghya Ghosh : U.G. & P.G. Department of Botany, Darjeeling Government College.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2021.37.01.10