Estimates of the economic cost caused by five major reproductive problems in dairy animals in Assam and Bihar, India

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwichen
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationUppsala Universityen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierRam Pratim Deka: 0000-0002-8120-224Xen
cg.creator.identifierDelia Grace: 0000-0002-0195-9489en
cg.creator.identifierUlf Magnusson: 0000-0002-7087-6820en
cg.creator.identifierThomas Fitz Randolph: 0000-0003-1849-9877en
cg.creator.identifierJohanna Lindahl: 0000-0002-1175-0398en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113116en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1751-7311en
cg.issue11en
cg.journalAnimalsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen
cg.subject.ilriREPRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume11en
dc.contributor.authorDeka, Ram Pratimen
dc.contributor.authorMagnusson, Ulfen
dc.contributor.authorGrace, Deliaen
dc.contributor.authorRandolph, Thomas F.en
dc.contributor.authorShome, R.en
dc.contributor.authorLindahl, Johanna F.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-05T08:22:42Zen
dc.date.available2021-11-05T08:22:42Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115837
dc.titleEstimates of the economic cost caused by five major reproductive problems in dairy animals in Assam and Bihar, Indiaen
dcterms.abstractReproductive problems in dairy animals reduce fertility, prevent conception, create problems in the delivery of healthy calves, lead to postpartum complications, increase inter-calving periods, reduce milk yield, and lower overall lifetime productivity. This study aimed at understanding the incidence of reproductive problems and the cost caused by these. The study covered 954 dairy animals in Bihar and 1348 dairy animals in Assam that were selected using a multi-stage random sampling method. The costs were calculated as the sum of income losses and expenditures incurred. The major cost incurred resulted from extended calving intervals (46.1% of the total cost), followed by loss through salvage selling (38.1%), expenditure for treatment of repeat breeders (5.9%), loss of milk production (5.3%) and expenditure for extra inseminations (2.0%). About one fifth of the selected reproductive problems were left untreated. The estimated cost of reproductive problems was Indian Rupees (INR) 2424.9 (USD 36.1) per dairy animal per year (of the total dairy animal population) which represented approximately 4.1% of the mean value loss of dairy animals (INR 58,966/USD 877) per year. Reproductive problems were significantly (p < 0.001) higher among improved (exotic breed or cross-bred) dairy animals than indigenous (native breed or nondescript indigenous) dairy animals. The study suggests that with the increase of improved dairy animal population, the loss may further increase. The study concludes that any economic estimation of reproduction problems based on aetiology without confirmatory diagnoses could be highly misleading because of the complex nature of the problems.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2021-10-30en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDeka, R.P., Magnusson, U., Grace, D., Randolph, T.F., Shome, R. and Lindahl, J.F. 2021. Estimates of the economic cost caused by five major reproductive problems in dairy animals in Assam and Bihar, India. Animals 11(11): 3116.en
dcterms.extent3116en
dcterms.issued2021-10-30en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.subjectdairyingen
dcterms.subjecteconomicsen
dcterms.subjectreproductionen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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