ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2021 29 The Covid-19 pandemic was the main agenda for 2020. Like every sector, livestock and feed sectors have had their share of this outbreak. At the beginning of the pandemic, with the effect of panic purchases, the demand for meat, milk and fishery products increased. However, disruptions in raw material supply, logistics, and labor resources due to restrictions made it difficult for the industry to respond to consumer demands at the same pace. The prolonged process caused the economic problems of consumers to increase and besides, to change their purchasing habits. In addition, restaurants and catering companies remained closed for a long time. And the sector spent the year of 2020 looking for ways to overcome these problems. The year of 2020 which we left behind was a year that we cannot erase from our memories for many years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid 19 outbreak, which started in China in the last months of 2019, quickly spread all over the world and turned into a pandemic and stayed effective throughout 2020. And it looks like it will continue for the year ahead. Of course, the most irreversible effect of this pandemic was deaths and health problems. Many people around the world have lost loved ones or been left with serious health problems, perhaps irreversible. Due to the priority of human life, countries had to make tough decisions to combat the pandemic. Lockdowns and social isolation came into our lives as the most distinctive feature of this process. Factors such as restrictions on the transition between countries, temporary closure of public places and workplaces, schools, which are seen as social environments, and the processes of forcibly staying at home, have hit many sectors and businesses in the industry. The livestock and feed sector also took its share from this process, especially in the early stages of the pandemic. However, foods of animal By Derya Yıldız
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