Indonesia: The impact of the pandemic to prices of agricultural products and farmers

Published 2020년 11월 17일

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The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted agricultural prices in Indonesia, particularly horticultural and livestock products. Reduced demand and unbalanced supply and demand are affecting chicken breeders and horticultural crop farmers. Social restrictions are interfering with the delivery of perishable agricultural products. The government was urged to change the budget allocation to subsidize agricultural product transportation and to use its budget to subsidize farmers' products.

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA --- The Covid 19 pandemic which has been going on for nine months in Indonesia is considered to have an impact on the prices of agricultural products, especially horticultural products and livestock products. Khudori, an activist from the Indonesian Political Economy Association (AEPI), assessed that the two products were the most affected, especially in connection with the absorption of their production during the pandemic. "For chicken breeders, especially broilers, since August 2018 their condition has decreased. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the decline in demand is mainly due to lower purchasing power, so that supply and demand are not balanced, '' said Khudori in a press release received by Republika, Tuesday (17/11). If conditions are normal, according to Khudori, horticultural crop farmers should be able to carry out the production delivery process from the center to the collector trader level. But in reality, social restrictions interfere with the ...

Source: Republika