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The “coronavirus-disease in 2019 (COVID-19)” that is an epidemic in China has been turned into a serious health-threat globally (Wang, 2020), and is the prime-outbreak of a typical ‘pneumonia’ since the “severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)” outbreak in 2003. However, the initial-outbreak of the total number of cases in addition to the deaths have exceeded than that of SARS within few weeks (Hawryluck, 2004). In the late December 2019, the outbreak was revealed initially when a number of unknown etiology related pneumonia cases were recognized in the city of Wuhan of Hubei region (Nishiura, 2020). Moreover, by 30 January 2020, the number of cases has been escalated exponentially with spreading to more 34 regions of China. In the earlier time period, India had to deal with diseases such as the plagues, small-pox, and polio, etc. However, the Covid-19 which is rapidly spread to most of the countries in the world over the next few months can result to a biggest potential health-crisis in the history.
The first disease-case in India has been recorded on January 30, 2020, and since there have been a steady and significant increase in the number of cases. The declaration of the COVID-19 outbreak as a ‘public health-emergency of international-concern’ was made by the “World Health Organization (WHO)” (Mahase, 2020). Moreover, because of this pandemic situation, not only the general public, but also the farming communities from the agricultural sectors all over the world have been under psychological-stresses. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring the psychological-impacts in addition to the mental-health of the farmers in India during the COVID-19 outbreak.