NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE - A severe shortage of labor, triggered by India’s 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, will disrupt harvesting of winter crops in the world’s second largest producer of staple food grains, such as wheat.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Ramandeep Singh Mann, a farmer from Punjab, whose family grows wheat, rice and cotton on more than 45 acres and would employ about 10 workers if they used mechanical harvesters.Mann is just one of thousands of farmers concerned he will be unable to get mechanical harvesters to fields or even manage to gather by hand crops likely to be ripe in mid-April.
But trade and industry officials say delays in arrival, berthing and other shipping operations could affect rice exports, while the lack of workers could limit exports of fresh vegetables, such as onions. “Who is going to put grains in the bag, bring produce to wholesale markets, and then transport it to various storage facilities?” asked Jadish Lal, a merchant at the Khanna grain market in Punjab.
It is for 21 days only after 14 April there may be a selective lockdown. Till 14 April many things will be cleared.
Quickly train locals on how to harvest them and bring them to markets, or maybe even door to door, I don’t know
they cant harvest the crop outside while staying away from other people?
soon, we will run out of food
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