Developing agribusiness for meeting demand of quality foods during and post Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 Pandemic has negatively impacted several aspects the life of people and businesses. Agribusiness is no exception in receiving impact of the pandemic. For further sustainable development, agribusiness needs to redirect its activities to provide products in line with market demand. The objectives of this paper are to describe the current conditions of agribusiness implementation, and to prescribe what needs to be carried out by and in agribusiness for meeting products, particularly quality foods, that are currently and in futures demanded in people efforts to survive from the attack and sickness of Covid-19 and carry on the living of the people. Data for this study are obtained from secondary and primary sources, capitalizing available data from others and author own research and extension activities, especially in Lombok Island. The study concluded that the implementation of agribusiness system and its subsystems in Lombok Island has not been operating in its full potentials, and therefore some activities are recommended to be done to improve the conditions of the agribusiness itself, as well as to fill in the demand for quality foods for consumers, who are in the needs of protection and curing from diseases caused by Covid-19. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.