Governmental actions, taken in attempts to control the pandemic, have included national lockdowns, travel restrictions, border closures and controls. Areas impacted include the livestock production sector, at global, regional and national levels ( Marchant-Forde and Boyle, 2020).
In addition to its impact on public health, COVID-19 has affected social and economic life in many ways. This warrants long-term consideration beyond the immediate concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. 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. 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 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. Disrupted production and transportation, declining consumer demand and volatile markets brought huge financial difficulties, even leading to the permanent closure of many farms. This research shows that hardly any stakeholder escaped hardship.
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. These included key informants from breeder farms and hatcheries, pharmaceutical suppliers, feed companies, dealers, farmers, middlemen, and vendors. This is based on a literature review, social media monitoring, and key informant interviews ( n = 36) from across the poultry sector in Bangladesh. 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. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected numerous economic sectors across the world, including livestock production.
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