Farming situations in Issapur village of dwarka district in West Delhi during covid-19 pandemic

Situation of Indian agriculture has changed a lot due to pandemic which had a huge impact not only on agriculture but various other allied activities related to it. In this context, this paper aims to study the impact of COVID 19 on various aspects of farming system. The village selected for the study was Issapur which is located in the outskirt of Delhi NCR. The sampling method adopted in this village was snowball sampling or chain referral sampling. Exactly 30 farmers were interviewed. The data were arranged in a systematic manner, analyzed and expressed on percentage basis. In this study, most of the farmers belonged to the age group 35–55 yr, involved in farming alongside being wage earners, educated up to 12^th, associated with joint family system, had no trading experience, belonged to small farmer category. Majority of farmers were not affected by COVID 19 and not ready to take vaccination. The study revealed that at the time of lockdown most of the crops were at harvesting and post harvesting stages. Most of the farmers did not face any issues regarding input availability for their next crop and didn't have any problem regarding labour availability for their farming operations. They suggested strategies like frequent monitoring on input shops and regularization of prices and provision of facilities of storage to prevent them to go for distress sale due to pandemic.