Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290156 
Year of Publication: 
2024
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[Journal:] Agribusiness [ISSN:] 1520-6297 [Volume:] 40 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 391-415
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
This paper examines how India's national lockdown (March 25–May 31, 2020), in response to the spread of Covid-19, affected the on-farm family labor supply of 351 farm households in the rural–urban interface of Bangalore. We combine face-to-face survey data collected just before the start of the lockdown with phone survey data collected during the last 2 weeks of the lockdown. We find that 66% of farm households reduced their daily on-farm family labor supply during the lockdown, by on average almost 40% compared with prelockdown levels. Changes in on-farm family labor supply differed by key pre-Covid-19 household characteristics. Farm households that were engaged in crop marketing decreased their on-farm family labor supply by an average of 3–4 h/day. In turn, farm households that relied on off-farm income increased their on-farm family labor supply by on average 3–4 h/day
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agricultural households
agricultural markets
Covid‐19
India
lockdowns
on‐farm labor supply
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