Animal Health Economics

Expanding urbanization and increasing per capita income continuously push the demand for protein-rich livestock and poultry products. As a result, although there has been a tremendous increase in livestock and poultry output in the recent past, this glowing trend is not without any issues. Economic losses arising from animal diseases continue to be a major concern. Hence, diseases are less tolerated by the farmers and entrepreneurs as they dwindle the attainable farm output and income. Animal diseases also have serious negative effects on farm-related industries like feed manufacturing firms and product processing businesses, besides causing a severe setback in export markets

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