A study on socio economic status of the farmers during COVID-19 pandemic in Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused an unparalleled situation to arise throughout the world. This disruption has had an irredeemable impact not only on people's health but also on livelihood of the farmers, exorbitant of agricultural products, loss of employment, students' education, and the livelihood of both rural and urban communities. Although not directly, but circuitously the result of coronavirus scattering effect i.e. lockdown across the kingdom has twisted out to be a black opening for the farming community. The growers are likely to feel a dip in their returns. The state West Bengal and Cooch Behar district were selected purposively. The Cooch Behar-I and Cooch Behar-II block from selected district were selected randomly with the help of simple random sampling procedure. The Paschim Ghugumari and Hawargadi villages were selected from Cooch Behar-I block and Chattisingh Mari and Dakshin KalarayerKuthi villages were selected from Cooch Behar-II block randomly. From each village 25 numbers of respondents were selected randomly. Thus, total 100 numbers of respondents in the study area chosen as a sample for this study. The data were analyzed using range, mean, standard deviation and coeffieicnt of variation.