Abstract
Cross-Sectional Survey on Food Animal Diseases and Pharmaceuticals Prescribing Pattern in Jhenaidah, Bangladesh
Highlights
Bangladesh is a densely populated country with 80% of the rural people engaged with cattle rearing (Siddiki et al, 2010)
In case of some critical cases, the samples are usually collected and diagnosed the disease by using some diagnostic tools which are available at Upazilla Veterinary Hospital (UVH) or send the sample to the central laboratory for further investigation to confirm the diagnosis
Proportionate Prevalence of Different Diseases According to Species In Cattle (n=435) the proportionate prevalence of medicinal, surgical and gynaecological cases was 93.3%, 4.1% and 2.5%, respectively
Summary
Bangladesh is a densely populated country with 80% of the rural people engaged with cattle rearing (Siddiki et al, 2010). The total cattle and goat population of Bangladesh is 23.8 million and 26.2 million respectively (Anon, 2020). Compared to neighbouring countries like India, Nepal and Myanmar, Bangladesh has low productivity in milk production (Uddin et al, 2011). Estimated milk and meat production are 9.3 and 7.2 million metric tons respectively; having a deficiency of 5.6 million metric tons of milk and a surplus of 0.02 million metric tons of meat (Anon, 2017). Cattle and goat are extremely important to household farmers; because of having a direct link with family’s income, welfare, and nutritional supplement (Sarker and Islam, 2011).
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