Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

SARS-COV-2 has major impact on the global health and driven back the financial positions by taking lives, destroying livelihood etc. it has been a global emergency which created at multidimensional havoc in the society. The SARS-COV-2 pandemic has had a profound impact on various sectors of the economy, and the agricultural industry, particularly livestock farming, has not been exempt from its consequences. The study was designed to gather data from livestock farmers in the two district of Hisar and Sirsa in Haryana. A structured interview schedule was developed, addressing various aspects of the farmers’ economic conditions, challenges faced, and potential coping mechanisms. The survey was distributed electronically and collected responses over a period of [2021-2022]. A total of [140] livestock farmers participated in the survey, the data was analyzed by Chi-square test. The results showed that about 98% farmers believe that COVID has a negative impact on livestock farming practices, the type of farming had a positive and significant effect or had an impact on dairy input cost and livelihood of farmers (p<0.05), the extension contact and mass media exposure had a positive and significant effect or had an impact on government facilities utilization and hygiene practices awareness leads to clean milk production (p<0.05), the training of dairy farmers had a positive and significant effect or had an impact on livelihood of farmers and alternative to treatment of animal (p<0.05) during COVID. The paper also discusses some remedial measures to be adopted by households in the future, to minimize the impacts of such pandemics in the Livestock sector.