Open AccessThe 7th International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences (ABS 2021)
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/858/1/011001
Subject(s) - agriculture , economic shortage , covid-19 , pandemic , business , dilemma , consumption (sociology) , political science , agricultural economics , public relations , economics , medicine , sociology , geography , social science , philosophy , disease , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , linguistics , government (linguistics) , infectious disease (medical specialty)
COVID-19 brought about long-lasting changes to all aspects of our daily lives. The “Social Distancing” and “Quarantine” policies making labor-oriented agriculture trap in the dilemma of migrant labor shortage and sharp increase in daily wages for some harvesting activities. Meanwhile, the supply chains in agriculture have been disrupted because of issues in transportation and market operation policy. Agriculture around the world underwent a difficult transition period to change production mode with the coronavirus-driven consumption patterns continued. ABS is an international annual conference that deal with agricultural and biological sciences, and ABS 2021 is primarily scheduled to be held in a hybrid form of online via MS TEAMS and Offline at Bohai University from August 9th-11th. Many works were done, and many participants showed their willingness to participate ABS 2021 by submitting full papers or abstracts since late 2020. Considering the actual situation and for the safety of the participants, ABS 2021 was changed to online conference via MS TEAMS on August 9th-11th, 2021. List of Chair of Technical Program Committee, Technical Program Committee are available in this pdf.