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Without a doubt, we are facing a particularly critical moment regarding of the future of economy in European and national agricultural sector. The developments of recent years have a decisive effect on the agricultural sector. This paper will try to investigate particularly the funding of the agricultural sector, due its importance in the stimulation and development of the Greek economy. Specifically, we would like to examine the contribution of state and European funding instruments in supporting agricultural production during the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In order to draw some indicative conclusions, we collected data for the region of western Greece. With the empirical analysis we carried out on our data, the situation in which agricultural employment is found after the measures to limit the repercussions of coronavirus became more definite. While the results showed that the producers have realized the main problems and obstacles that they have to overcome. For the consolidation and revitalization of the agricultural sector, modernization and cooperation between farmers is necessary. The two of them combined with state and European support will succeed in creating a single production network that will make the Greek agricultural sector more competitive.