COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected numerous economic sectors across the world, including livestock production. This study investigates how the pandemic has impacted the poultry production and distribution network (PDN), analyses stakeholders' changing circumstances, and provides recomm...
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| author | Abdullah Al Sattar Rashed Mahmud Md. Abu Shoieb Mohsin Nurun Nahar Chisty Md. Helal Uddin Nusrat Irin Tony Barnett Tony Barnett Guillaume Fournie Eve Houghton Md. Ahasanul Hoque |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected numerous economic sectors across the world, including livestock production. This study investigates how the pandemic has impacted the poultry production and distribution network (PDN), analyses stakeholders' changing circumstances, and provides recommendations for rapid and long-term resilience. This is based on a literature review, social media monitoring, and key informant interviews (n = 36) from across the poultry sector in Bangladesh. These included key informants from breeder farms and hatcheries, pharmaceutical suppliers, feed companies, dealers, farmers, middlemen, and vendors. We show that the poultry sector was damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, partly as a result of the lockdown and also by rumors that poultry and their products could transmit the disease. This research shows that hardly any stakeholder escaped hardship. Disrupted production and transportation, declining consumer demand and volatile markets brought huge financial difficulties, even leading to the permanent closure of many farms. We show that the extent of the damage experienced during the first months of COVID-19 was a consequence of how interconnected stakeholders and businesses are across the poultry sector. For example, a shift in consumer demand in live bird markets has ripple effects that impact the price of goods and puts pressure on traders, middlemen, farmers, and input suppliers alike. We show how this interconnectedness across all levels of the poultry industry in Bangladesh makes it fragile and that this fragility is not a consequence of COVID-19 but has been revealed by it. This warrants long-term consideration beyond the immediate concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcf0cf6e9add43ee968f85f8d61a97242022-12-21T18:29:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2021-08-01510.3389/fsufs.2021.714649714649COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in BangladeshAbdullah Al Sattar0Rashed Mahmud1Md. Abu Shoieb Mohsin2Nurun Nahar Chisty3Md. Helal Uddin4Nusrat Irin5Tony Barnett6Tony Barnett7Guillaume Fournie8Eve Houghton9Md. Ahasanul Hoque10Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshVeterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health Group, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London, United KingdomFiroz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United KingdomVeterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health Group, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London, United KingdomVeterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health Group, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London, United KingdomDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChattogramVeterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chattogram, BangladeshThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected numerous economic sectors across the world, including livestock production. This study investigates how the pandemic has impacted the poultry production and distribution network (PDN), analyses stakeholders' changing circumstances, and provides recommendations for rapid and long-term resilience. This is based on a literature review, social media monitoring, and key informant interviews (n = 36) from across the poultry sector in Bangladesh. These included key informants from breeder farms and hatcheries, pharmaceutical suppliers, feed companies, dealers, farmers, middlemen, and vendors. We show that the poultry sector was damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, partly as a result of the lockdown and also by rumors that poultry and their products could transmit the disease. This research shows that hardly any stakeholder escaped hardship. Disrupted production and transportation, declining consumer demand and volatile markets brought huge financial difficulties, even leading to the permanent closure of many farms. We show that the extent of the damage experienced during the first months of COVID-19 was a consequence of how interconnected stakeholders and businesses are across the poultry sector. For example, a shift in consumer demand in live bird markets has ripple effects that impact the price of goods and puts pressure on traders, middlemen, farmers, and input suppliers alike. We show how this interconnectedness across all levels of the poultry industry in Bangladesh makes it fragile and that this fragility is not a consequence of COVID-19 but has been revealed by it. This warrants long-term consideration beyond the immediate concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.714649/fullpoultry sectorBangladeshCOVID-19impactrumortransaction chains |
| spellingShingle | Abdullah Al Sattar Rashed Mahmud Md. Abu Shoieb Mohsin Nurun Nahar Chisty Md. Helal Uddin Nusrat Irin Tony Barnett Tony Barnett Guillaume Fournie Eve Houghton Md. Ahasanul Hoque COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems poultry sector Bangladesh COVID-19 impact rumor transaction chains |
| title | COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh |
| title_full | COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh |
| title_short | COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | covid 19 impact on poultry production and distribution networks in bangladesh |
| topic | poultry sector Bangladesh COVID-19 impact rumor transaction chains |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.714649/full |
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