CropLife Asia and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the issues of food security, maintaining food supply chains, and supporting our farming communities to the forefront. CropLife Asia and its member companies have joined stakeholders across the value chain to advocate for keeping supply chains open, enabling and empowering farmers, and celebrating growers’ efforts as frontline #foodheroes during the pandemic.

Contributing to Public Health Efforts

We have responded to the call for help from public health officials by donating PPE, hand sanitizer and disinfectant to hospitals and first responders worldwide. Production facilities have been converted to produce hand sanitizer, and materials labs are printing protective masks and face shields.

Farmer Frontliners

Smallholder farmers are an essential part of our food supply especially more so during this pandemic. Here are some quotes from the farmers in Asia on how COVID-19 has affected the way they farm and why they continue to farm despite the risk to their health.