ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PARASITISM ON LIVESTOCK WEALTH

摘要

"Once in USA, farmers were requested to produce 10% more beef, milk and leather urgently required for their war efforts. U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that, most if not all of that 10% increase could be achieved without any increase in thenumber of cattle if cattle grubs were controlled." Livestock and poultry are important assets of landless and marginal farmers and aid in improving the economy of any agro-based country like India. Parasitic infections negatively affect the productivityof animals either in the form of loss of weight gain, reduced milk production, poor wool or carcass or hide quajity and reduced reproductive performance. The exact quantification of economic losses due to parasitism has not been attempted in most of theparasitic diseases in animals or is scattered in literature and difficult to fish out.