Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study
Abstract This study investigates the effects of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake based on a random survey of 247 fish consumers in Bangladesh. The Propensity Score Matching technique is used to compare fish consumption and fish‐sourced nutrition intake between two groups of consumer...
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author | Sandip Mitra Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan Most. Nilufa Khatun Md Takibur Rahman Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan |
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description | Abstract This study investigates the effects of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake based on a random survey of 247 fish consumers in Bangladesh. The Propensity Score Matching technique is used to compare fish consumption and fish‐sourced nutrition intake between two groups of consumers before and during COVID‐19. The result shows that 38% overall reduction in fish consumption for the low‐income group compared to lower‐middle, upper‐middle‐ and high‐income groups. Furthermore, per capita consumption of culture and capture fish species decreased significantly for low‐income, lower‐middle‐income, and upper‐middle‐income groups of consumers. It indicates that nutrition and mineral intake have reduced sharply as well Higher energy and K reduction are observed for Pangasius hypophthalmus among different culture fish species while energy and Ca reduction were higher for Wallago attu and Mystus vittatus respectively. Therefore, the government might place a greater emphasis on excluding the food supply chain from lockdown restrictions during a COVID‐19‐like pandemic. |
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spelling | doaj.art-0509e98dd04044caa1e35266b0a7034e2023-08-02T07:15:23ZengWileyJournal of the World Aquaculture Society0893-88491749-73452023-08-0154478680010.1111/jwas.12952Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical studySandip Mitra0Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan1Most. Nilufa Khatun2Md Takibur Rahman3Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan4Departmentof Agricultural Finance and Cooperatives, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University Gazipur BangladeshPolicy Research Institute of Bangladesh Dhaka BangladeshDepartmentof Agricultural Finance and Cooperatives, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University Gazipur BangladeshDepartment of Accounting and Information Systems Patuakhali Science and Technology University Patuakhali BangladeshDepartment of Agricultural Finance, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Bangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh BangladeshAbstract This study investigates the effects of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake based on a random survey of 247 fish consumers in Bangladesh. The Propensity Score Matching technique is used to compare fish consumption and fish‐sourced nutrition intake between two groups of consumers before and during COVID‐19. The result shows that 38% overall reduction in fish consumption for the low‐income group compared to lower‐middle, upper‐middle‐ and high‐income groups. Furthermore, per capita consumption of culture and capture fish species decreased significantly for low‐income, lower‐middle‐income, and upper‐middle‐income groups of consumers. It indicates that nutrition and mineral intake have reduced sharply as well Higher energy and K reduction are observed for Pangasius hypophthalmus among different culture fish species while energy and Ca reduction were higher for Wallago attu and Mystus vittatus respectively. Therefore, the government might place a greater emphasis on excluding the food supply chain from lockdown restrictions during a COVID‐19‐like pandemic.https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12952BangladeshCOVID‐19fish consumptionnutrition intake |
spellingShingle | Sandip Mitra Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan Most. Nilufa Khatun Md Takibur Rahman Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Bangladesh COVID‐19 fish consumption nutrition intake |
title | Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study |
title_full | Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study |
title_short | Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study |
title_sort | impact of covid 19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake an empirical study |
topic | Bangladesh COVID‐19 fish consumption nutrition intake |
url | https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12952 |
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