The economic impact attributable to brucellosis among goat farms in Peninsula Malaysia and cost benefit analysis
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2015-01
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Research Opinions in Animal & Veterinary Sciences
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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Bamaiyi PH Department of Pathology and Microbiology
Keywords
Economic impact, Brucellosis, Goats, Farms, Malaysia
Citation
To cite this article: Bamaiyi PH, 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.