Economic Challenges of India's Rural Economy during Coivid-19 Pandemic

This paper carries the evidence about economic challenges of rural economy in India. India is the country of villages, where the major population lives in rural areas. Agriculture and agriculture-related services are the major sources of livelihood of the peoples. In the past few decades, farm distress led to huge migration from rural to urban centres. The structural economic growth theories explain every economy in the transition phase moves from traditional (agriculture) to the modern sector (manufacturing/services). India is the fifth-largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) whereas the mass population in the country lives in abject poverty. During Covid- 19 pandemic rural economies faces infinite problems and consequences. But it had more response to produce and fulfil the basic necessities to entire population sans hesitation. Employment opportunities were abundant; fear about diseases ant its treatment that great influences affected the production in agriculture sector. Rural economy not utilised the services of Transportation and communication for exchange of agricultural commodities to common people across the country. Price rose in the economy and people faced inflation and paid higher prices