Impact of COVID-19 on animal production in the Czech Republic.

The COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on macroeconomic development in the Czech Republic, with the second quarter of 2020 seeing the most severe downturn since the formation of the Czech Republic in 1993. The Czech Statistical Office recorded a year-on-year decrease in GDP of 11% (CZSO, 2019). The analysis presented here focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on selected aspects of animal breeding and summarizes the situation up until 1 October 2020.