COVID-19 wreaks havoc
COVID-19 wreaks havoc on Jashore poultry industry
The novel coronavirus pandemic brought the entire global economy to a standstill, and the rural small entrepreneurs in developing countries like Bangladesh, mostly concentrated in agriculture sector, are not immune to the effects.
Bangladesh has declared a 10-day general holiday from March 26 while people started maintaining social distance and staying home like other countries across the world in an effort to starve the virus of the hosts it needs to replicate itself.
In this dire situation, over 200,000 chicken are dying every day at hatching farms in Jessore district, as poultry farm owners stopped buying chickens from hatcheries thanks to the lockdown.