Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural employees: The a case study in Çanakkale province

Agriculture has emerged as a structure that exists to meet the nutritional needs of humanity from the past to the present. The agricultural sector, which is as old as the history of humanity, is an effective sector that is important on its own, apart from nutrition. While the agriculture sector is an influencing and affected sector, it has revealed the necessity of re-examining the size of the recent Covid-19 global epidemic crisis. All economic sectors, including the agricultural sector, were significantly impacted by the coronavirus epidemic course after it first emerged in China in December 2019. The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic period on the economy, particularly the agricultural economy, and to determine the extent to which such global crises affect the future of agriculture and agricultural workers. The impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on various economic sectors has been examined during the study, and the general situation of agricultural workers and the extent of their exposure to the epidemic period has been assessed using a survey study with 81 questions and 5 main sections. According to the participants' responses, even though the epidemic period has no effect on an individual's job, it has concluded that the agricultural sector would be significantly impacted by the economic uncertainty caused by the epidemic, ongoing agricultural issues, and supply issues encountered during the epidemic period.