Effects of Covid - 19 Lock Down on Agricultural Farm Labour in Rural Areas of Imo State, Nigeria- A Review

The outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the world has negatively affected the African multisectorial pillars of the economy as well as agriculture which is regarded as a backbone of Africa. The crisis from a multisectorial perspective includes revenue losses, poor harvest, famine, travel restrictions and lack of interest agricultural activities. The spread of COVID-19 globally, has paralysed every facet of the economy. It has proved beyond doubt that COVID-19 affected the whole world and the developing countries will heavily feel the shocks. The aim of this paper is to understand multisectorial effects of COVID-19 through the detailed assessment of the pandemic from the Nigerian perspective. The paper adopted an extensive literature review in order to address the academic gap. This paper further established that COVID-19 will have short to long term negative impacts on Nigerian and African economies respective.

Keywords: COVID-19; Multisectorial; Agricultural Farm Labour; Socio-Economic; GDP