2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2021.11.018
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on small-scale farming in Northeastern Nile Delta of Egypt and learned lessons for water conservation potentials

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“…The agriculture also was one among sectors affected by these COVID-19 prevention measures. One among affected farming parts was irrigation where farmers were restricted to go to irrigate their fields and had to depend again on rain season only which reduced dramatically their production (Boughton et al, 2021;Selim and Eltarabily, 2022). nevertheless the IoT was introduced and being used in agriculture sector, challenges of COVID-19 pandemic have proved that the digital agriculture need to be accelerated, where smart irrigation systems are needed for autonomous irrigation and assisting farmers in remote monitoring and tracking forming activities (GSMA, 2021;Nyakuri et al, 2022).…”
Section: Threatening To Farmers Due To the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The agriculture also was one among sectors affected by these COVID-19 prevention measures. One among affected farming parts was irrigation where farmers were restricted to go to irrigate their fields and had to depend again on rain season only which reduced dramatically their production (Boughton et al, 2021;Selim and Eltarabily, 2022). nevertheless the IoT was introduced and being used in agriculture sector, challenges of COVID-19 pandemic have proved that the digital agriculture need to be accelerated, where smart irrigation systems are needed for autonomous irrigation and assisting farmers in remote monitoring and tracking forming activities (GSMA, 2021;Nyakuri et al, 2022).…”
Section: Threatening To Farmers Due To the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…African countries are threatened by climate problems, food insecurity, rising prices, wars between the world's largest food producers, etc. One of the next biggest shocks in history for it was the global pandemic of COVID-19, which brought with it closure of economies and national borders, quarantine, partial lockdown, restriction of movement, social distance, and reduction of staff in non-essential services (Selim and Eltarabily, 2022). A pandemic that contributed to people in extreme poverty increasing significantly in 2020 for the first time in many years.…”
Section: An Analysis Of Wheat Trade In Egyptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has of course had a major impact on the agricultural sector. According to Selim and Eltarabily (2022), the pandemic caused problems especially for smallholder farmers in the northern Nile Delta. According to Siche (2020), food chains were also affected.…”
Section: An Analysis Of Wheat Trade In Egyptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally in 2020, the government put in place a variety of restrictions to hinder the COVID-19 virus from spreading within Egypt's borders. These restrictions include quarantines, partial lockdowns, movement restrictions, social isolation, and personnel layoffs that are not absolutely necessary (Tarek and Mohamed 2022). The flow of agro-food products to customers and markets may have been impeded by these restrictions, but the food supply has remained stable thus far.…”
Section: Analysis Of the Measured Water Quality Sites Between The Yea...mentioning
confidence: 99%