Moroccan Journal of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

Vol. 12 No. 4 (2024): (December 2024)
Animal Production and Health

Economic impact assessment of the main bovine diseases in herds of matéri district in Benin

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  • Evelyne HOUNDJE,
  • Gilles GNAMMI,
  • Eric YESSINOU,
  • Cyrille BOKO,
  • Serge AHOUNOU,
  • Souaibou FAROUGOU
Evelyne HOUNDJE Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Transmissibles, École Polytechnique de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Gilles GNAMMI Direction Départementale de l’Agriculture, de l’Élevage et de la Pêche, Bénin
Eric YESSINOU Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Transmissibles, École Polytechnique de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Cyrille BOKO Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Transmissibles, École Polytechnique de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Serge AHOUNOU Laboratoire de Biotechnologie Animale et de Technologie des Viandes, École Polytechnique de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Souaibou FAROUGOU Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Transmissibles, École Polytechnique de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Published 2024-11-21

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Abstract

The present study consisted, on the basis of a survey among cattle farmers, to list the dominant pathologies with a view to the monetary estimation of their impact on bovine production. This study was carried out in five of the six districts of the municipality of Matéri. These results show that 55.6% of the respondents are aged between 30 and 49 years and are mostly Peuhl. Livestock farming is the main activity (88.9%) of those surveyed, the level of education is almost nil (97.2%). Foot-and-mouth disease and trypanosomiasis are the dominant ones with prevalence of 0.07 respectively. The estimate in this study was for the dominant disease, foot-and-mouth disease. For this purpose, the transfer price of animals is higher before the onset of pathology, then decreases significantly during the pathology to increase after the pathology without reaching the prices before. This is the same regardless of the stage of development of the bovine and on the price of milk. Therefore, it would be important to better assess the impact of this pathology with serological tests combined with recent economic assessment methods.

Keywords: foot-and-mouth disease, transfer prices, animal categories, Benin

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