Study on Impact of COVID -19 Pandemic and short term Lockdown on Pineapple Industry in Kerala state of India

Covid 19 has made unprecedented challenges to migrants especially women migrants who are one of the most vulnerable groups of this pandemic since most of the women migrants are working in informal and social service sector. Kerala is one of the highest women emigrating states in India. The focal point of this study is to find out both the social and economic problems faced by women emigrants from Kerala due to Covid 19. To find out these problems, primary data were collected from women emigrants from Neendoor panchayat in Kottayam district in Kerala through snowball sampling technique. Since the problems faced by women emigrants in Gulf and developed countries are not same due to this pandemic, this study also examines this difference