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Incidence of Diseases of Livestock and Its Economic Loss Among the Selected Rural Households of Bangladesh

M. A Hossain
Agricultural Economics Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Joydebpur, Gazipur.

M. S. Alam
On-Farm Research Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Joydebpur, Gazipur.

M. F. Islam
Agricultural Economics Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Joydebpur, Gazipur.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

An attempt was made to collect information on the incidence of diseases of livestock and its economic loss among rural households from the Farming Systems Research Site, Lebukhali under Patuakhali district. Findings reveal that the major diseases for cattle were foot and mouth disease, lice, diarrhoea, anthrax and septicaemic pasteurellosis. The main diseases for goat were diarrhoea and dermatitis, for chicken ranikhet, fowl cholera, fowl pox and eimeriasis and for duck, duck plague and duck cholera. The mortality rates of cattle, goat, chicken and duck were 20%, 46%, 67% and 97% respectively. The annual loss per farm (having diseased livestock) was TK 761.00 but the loss per farm for the entire sample was TK 457.00.

Keywords: Diseases, Livestock, Ecnomic loss, Selected rural households

Location: Farming Systems Research (FSR) site, Lebukhali under Patuakhali district

Start Date: 00-11-1987

End Date: 00-03-1988

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Cattle

Objectives:

1. To estimate the incidence of livestock diseases and mortality rate in the study area;

2. To identify the nature of treatment followed by the farmers, and

3. To estimate the economic loss on the farm economy.

Methodology:

The study was conducted during November-March, 1987-88 at the Farming Systems Research (FSR) site in Lebukhali under Patuakhali district. The FSR site consist of three villages namely Lebukhali, Kartikpasha and Badarpur. Initially a list of all farmers from three villages was prepared and stratified into landless (upto 0.20 ha), marginal (0.21-0.50 ha), small (0.51-1.00 ha), medium (1.01-2.00 ha), and large (above 2.0 ha) farmers on the basis of land owned. The proportional stratified random sampling was done for this study. A total of 100 farmers comprising 38 landless, 28 marginal, 20 small, 10 medium and 4 large farmers were selected. Data were collected from both male and female heads of the households using an interview schedule. Tabular analysis was done to attain the objectives.

Source of Information: Bang. J. An. Sc. 1996, 25(1-2), 11 -17, ISSN 0003 - 3588

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Achievement/Findings:

The study reveal that the diseases of livestock attacked a large number of livestock heads every year in the study area, consequently, it badly affects the farmers' economy. It may be mentioned here that no scientific treatment was followed for the diseased livestock. Specific preventive measures should be taken against those diseases.

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