Author(s): A. D. Mawardhi; C. O. Debataraja; P. L. Lumbanraja
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Abstract: Agriculture is one of the Covid-19 pandemic's afflicted sectors, and it is also a key element of Indonesia's economy. Agriculture is being impacted by a rise in input prices, a decline in consumer ability to buy, rebudgeting of government agriculture programs, farmers' health issues, and the supply chain being disrupted by the social restriction program. Due to the economic sector being damaged by the epidemic, increases in input prices such as fertilizer, seeds, and crop protection materials were unavoidable throughout the pandemic (Rozaki, 2021). Farmers responses due to pandemic situation affect food production since limited access to agriculture input resulting on difficulty to achieve optimum yields. Field management shifting also influence water productivity both directly and indirectly. Thus, there is a significant link between crop yields and water availability (D’orocio et. al., 2018). The concept of water productivity recently must be linked to factors of nutritional value. This might give a comprehensive approach to enhancing human health during pandemic by combining water, agriculture, and nutrition (Mabhaudhi et. al., 2016). The water-food-health nexus may be used to gain a better understanding of how Covid-19 affects water and agriculture, and vice versa. The nexus concepts between water to other resources has been promoted as a tool to interconnect multiple resource-use practices rather than isolated sectors. This helps in the understanding of a more holistic, integrated approach to managing water resources and allowing for actual actions as outputs. However, interlinkage between water, food, and health corresponding to pandemic has not been deeply understood. This paper aims to simulate farmer response post Covid-19 to their farm management resulting to sugarcane yields and water productivity.
Year: 2022