A systematic Analysis of the Impact of the Pandemic on Agri-businesses Based on Farmers Productivity Nafuna Margaret 1 , Masuba Emma 2 , Majwega Jackson 3 , Nakayiza Hellen 4 1 Department of Applied Physics and Electronics Engineering, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 Department of Biology (Faculty of Science), Muni University, Arua, Uganda 3,4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (nafuna.margaret@g.bracu.ac.bd, masubaemma98@gmail.com,majwega.jackson@g.bracu.ac.bd, nakayiza.hellen@g.bracu.ac.bd) Abstract - Agriculture still plays a big role in many livelihoods around the globe, and food prices are one of the key factors affecting nutrition assurance for both urban underprivileged and rural households. While the economic influences of the pandemic disruptions on both tourism industry and manufacturing were clear and noticeable to policymakers, the impacts on the agri-businesses were less evident and often more indirect. This pandemic constrained normal execution of agricultural activities and movement of agricultural produce to markets. Famer’s direct access to extension facilities was limited due to movement restrictions and suspension of public gatherings. The overall objective of this paper was to analyze how agribusinesses have been impacted during the pandemic as a result of agriculture during the pandemic. Restrictions on farmer movements hindered crop production which negatively affected agribusinesses’ production. For the people who were allowed to travel to villages, many participated in farming which led to overproduction with limited market mainly because of restricted travels and closure of schools and since many farmers are low income earners in low resource settings, they lack good quality storage facilities which in turn contaminates perishable agricultural products lowering prices on the side of the side of farmers. This positively impacted agribusinesses leading to overproduction due to availability of cheap and a variety of raw materials. This discouraged many and in the long run agribusinesses lacked enough agricultural raw materials leading to low productivity. Results indicated that agribusinesses indirectly or indirectly depend on farmers’ productivity hence a need to employ strategic measures to strike a balance between farmers’ and agribusinesses’ productivity Keywords - Pandemic, Agriculture, Farmers, Productivity, Agri-businesses I. INTRODUCTION A. Background and Motivation In developing nations, agriculture keeps on being the primary wellspring of business, occupation and income for between half to 90% of the population. Of this rate, small farmers make up the greater part, up to 70-95% of the cultivating population. small farmers are thus a huge extent of the population [1]. Farming improvement is one of the most incredible assets to end poverty destitution, boast prosperity, and feed an extended 9.7 billion individuals by 2050. Development in the farming area is two to multiple times more viable in raising wages among the most poor people contrasted with different areas. Investigations in 2016 tracked down that 65% of poor working grown-ups earned enough to pay the rent through farming [2]. The pandemic has labored all populations and sectors worldwide. It has infected 239,499,670 people and 4,882,089 deaths all over the world resulting in many changes in multiple human activities at a fast timeline in all third-world countries [3]. Human connections that drive the economy, like cooperating in encased regions and entertainment activities , have been debilitated, confined, or restricted [4] and the citizens comply with the restrictions. For instance, in China, immediate control measures like city and populace focus lockdowns, farmer market closures, and transit control have been implemented all throughout this pandemic [5]. The restrictions implemented by several governments to overcome the rapid spread of the virus have greatly affected the farmers' production as well as their economy. The farmers faced difficulties due to labor shortages, inaccessibility to market, inadequate input supplies, disrupted demand for their products and so on. The survey report conducted by BRAC on 1,581 farmers from every one of the agricultural sub- areas like poultry, dairy, fisheries, crops and vegetables shows that farmers are among the most exceedingly terrible survivors of the financial shock coming about because of the Covid 19 crisis. Most farmers in every one of the four areas were monetarily influenced by the pandemic. Generally, 88% of all farmers revealed issues they confronted, which brought about economic misfortunes. The fisheries area is by all accounts the hardest hit (100%). The fundamental causes are not getting reasonable prices(66%), restricted activity of business sectors especially the markets (52%), higher costs of inputs (45%) and inaccessibility of labor force (28%) [6]. Agribusinesses have benefited from the prevailing pandemic situation with an average score of 114.6 because of the increased production and obtaining of the raw materials at fair prices, selling their products at greater prices than ever before.