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Ignat, R., & Constantin, M. (2020). Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences (pp. 578–588). https://doi.org/10.2478/9788395815072-058
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Ignat, Raluca, and Marius Constantin. “Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, 578–588, 2020.
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Ignat, Raluca, and Marius Constantin. “Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, 2020, pp. 578–88, doi:10.2478/9788395815072-058.
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@inproceedings{raluca2020a,
title = {Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania},
year = {2020},
journal = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences},
pages = {578-588},
doi = {10.2478/9788395815072-058},
author = {Ignat, Raluca and Constantin, Marius}
}
The value chains in the agri-food industry are affected by the new COVID-19 working standards, considering that, in such a complex and dynamic industry, activities may or may not require intense physical labour, depending on many factors, such as: the technologies used, the level of automation, the logistics performance, etc. However, taking into consideration the peculiarities of the agri-food value chains, it becomes clear that with the new pandemic regulations, the agri-food value chains are under additional pressure. On the one hand, the pressure comes from the new working standards and, on the other hand, the pressure comes from the demand-side of agri-food products. The main objective pursued in this research paper was to quantify the short-term impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the agri-food value chains in Romania, from multiple perspectives. A statistical analysis was carried, highlighting the short term socio-economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania at the level of one of the structures within the agrifood value chain, companies operating in the wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals, by analysing the evolution of the turnover value indices of these companies. Other relevant indicators were also included in the statistical analysis. The main findings of this study refer to the previously mentioned companies, which successfully met the request from the demand-side in March 2020, when Romania was under the state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did these companies efficiently adapt to the new working regulations, but they also managed to turn a difficult situation to their advantage, considering the turnover value index of 201 in March 2020, the greatest value of the index during January-April 2015-2020.
