It’s starting to feel like the beginning of the pandemic again, in more ways than one. Grocery stores and food supply chains have been stretching themselves throughout the pandemic to keep products in stock, but the onset of omicron is now upending operations across the board. Many parents who work in grocery stores are staying home due to widespread school …
On the eve of 25 March, when the first lockdown to deal with the covid crises was announced, it came as an unanticipated shock to India’s economic apparatus. India’s food supply chains suffer from lack of adequate warehousing facilities. As such lockdowns could become a frequently-used tool to deal with infection outbreaks, our analysis portends the possible bottlenecks in food …
