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The economic impact attributable to brucellosis
among goat farms in
Peninsula Malaysia and cost benefit analysis
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Bamaiyi
PH1,2*, Khairani-Bejo S1 and
ZainalAbidin M3 |
1Department of Pathology and Microbiology; 2Department
of Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia
Kelantan; 3Department of Agribusiness and Information System,
Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor,
Malaysia
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Abstract |
Brucellosis is known to
cause economic losses to livestock farmers around the world. The amount
of direct economic loss suffered by farmers has not been reported in
Malaysia. This study reports the cost benefit analysis of goat farming
and the economic impact attributable to brucellosis in goat farms in
four states of Malaysia. Data about production indices and management
was collected from farms through interviewer-administered structured
questionnaires. The cost-benefit analysis of goat farming in Malaysia
shows that it is a profitable business with 42 farms yielding about RM 2
million (USD 645,161.29) a month. Comparing fifteen farms from the four states when
they had no brucellosis infection and after they were infected with
brucellosis using the culling of the goats and farm value as criteria
the fifteen farms had a financial loss of at least RM 156,212.50 (USD
50,391.13) which was found to be significant (P<0.05) at 95% confidence
level using Wilcoxon signed rank test with IBM SPSS version 20. There
was no significant difference in the economic impact on the farms
between the various states at 95% confidence level using Kruskal-Wallis
test with IBM SPSS version 20. Based on reported seroprevalence rate of
2.9% using complement fixation test it was estimated that annually the
economic impact due to caprine brucellosis was
RM7,974263.8 (USD 2,572343.1). This study highlights
the colossal waste to the economy due to caprine brucellosis and
underscores the urgent need to take more drastic measures to eradicate
brucellosis in Malaysia through a combination of test and slaughter
policy with vaccination of goats and a total ban on importation of live
goats into Malaysia from any endemic country.
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Keywords:
Economic impact;
brucellosis; goats; farms;
Malaysia |
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To cite this article:
Bamaiyi PH, L Hassan, S Khairani-Bejo and M ZainalAbidin, 2015.
The economic impact attributable to brucellosis among
goat farms in Peninsula Malaysia and cost benefit analysis.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 5(2): 57-64. |
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