The COVID- 19 Impact on the Food and Textile Industry: Lessons Learned

Abstract

The Covid-19 virus pandemic has crippled life as we know it. The virus is still spreading, and life is still not normal. Of course, various industries are crippled. Supply chains will need to become more resilient in the future to possible recurrence of incidents like the pandemic of Covid-19. In this article, we will present how the Covid-19 virus pandemic has affected the food and textile industries. We have reviewed what measures were made at the start of the pandemic and how these industries have adapted to them. We also reviewed how the measures will affect supply chains and how they should operate in the future to withstand possible recurring emergencies such as the Covid-19 pandemic. We also compared the benefits of local in global supply chains, because in food supply chains the issue needs to be addressed and the Covid-19 virus pandemic can encourage consumers to buy locally produced food. It turned out that the Asian textile industry is largely dependent on western countries and has fallen into a major crisis with a massive drop in orders.