Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture, countryside and farmers and countermeasures

ABSTRACT

COVID-19 outbreak has great impact on agricultural and rural farmers. In order to effectively cope with the impact of COVID-19 epidemic and promote agricultural and rural development, this paper expounds the impact of the epidemic from three aspects of agricultural production, farmers and rural development, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures: building development platform for rural electric business, implementing the development mode of "Internet plus agriculture", strengthening the input and publicity of agricultural insurance to benefit farmers, and increasing support for local employment and entrepreneurship of migrant workers.