Quantifying the Economic Impact of Bovine Tuberculosis on Livestock Farms in South-Western Spain
| Autor: | Álvaro Ignacio Muñoz-Cardona, Carolina Pontones-Rosa, Christian Gortázar-Schmidt, Rosario Pérez-Morote |
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| Přispěvatelé: | European Commission |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Animals Volume 10 Issue 12 Animals, Vol 10, Iss 2433, p 2433 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2076-2615 |
| Popis: | This article belongs to the Section Animal System and Management. Pasture-based livestock farming generates income in regions with limited resources and is key to biodiversity conservation. However, costs derived from fighting disease can make the difference between profit and loss, eventually compromising farm survival. Animal TB (TB), a chronic infection of cattle and other domestic and wild hosts, is one of the primary limitations of beef cattle farming in some parts of Europe. When an animal tests positive for TB, a loss of profit is caused in the farm, which is due mainly to the animal’s slaughter, replacement of the slaughtered animal and the need to immobilize the rest of the herd. We estimated the economic impact in terms of loss of profit as a result of incremental costs and forgone incomes. We show that farms with a larger number of heads are more capable of dealing with the loss of profit caused by the disease. The quantification of the loss of profit contributes to the ongoing debate on the co-sharing of TB costs between government and farmers. The compensation farmers receive from the public administration to mitigate the economic effects of the disease control interventions is only intended to balance the loss due to slaughter of the infected cattle, being the loss of profit a more global concept. The publication and dissemination of the results of this article has received funding from the European Union through the European Rural Development Fund (FEDER). |
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