Issues faced by poultry farmers in post-covid scenario

COVID-19 pandemic lockdown is for long period and it has created a remarkable impact on various sectors in India, such as agriculture and its allied sub sectors.This research is aimed to represent the pandemic impact and the lockdown impact on broiler poultry industry in the country, which is the fast growing sector in the recent years.The production and consumption pattern of broiler meat industry had a tremendous change in the nationwide.Before pandemic the production and consumption pattern of broiler meat industry has an increase year by year.In the process of pandemic, the production and consumption of broiler meat has decrease in the pattern.The present study is undertaken from the available information collected through various published journals and materials.Primary information is collected from poultry farmers by contacting them personally.This pandemic had caused huge distress to millions of the marginal and poor farmers their produce.This paper highlights the production and consumption pattern of broiler poultry in India and also the reasons for the reduction in demand, distress of produce sale and impact on input supplies.The paper also highlights the challenges faced by the broiler poultry farmers in the pandemic.The paper present the overall scenario of production and consumption pattern along with these the reasons for distress is known from primary data, as this data is collected from the broiler poultry farmers in North coastal Andhra Pradesh this helped in understanding the extent of impact in veracious ways.