Open AccessStatus of Animal Health and Role of Livestock Farming in Poverty Reduction in Balochistan, Pakistan
Author(s) -
Mohammad Zahid Mustafa,
Hafiz Muhammad Arif,
Abdul Nasir,
Dad Muhammad Anwar,
Muhammad Din Mandokhail,
Hashim Manjebrayakath,
Salahuddin Tareen,
Abdul Malik Kasi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pak-euro journal of medical and life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-448X
pISSN - 2707-4471
DOI - 10.31580/pjmls.v1i1.971
Subject(s) - livestock , population , veterinary medicine , rinderpest , foot and mouth disease , socioeconomics , agriculture , rangeland , geography , livelihood , animal health , agroforestry , environmental health , biology , medicine , forestry , outbreak , virus , archaeology , virology , sociology
Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan with almost 44% of the country land. Most of the area is rangeland and only 5-7 % area is hardly cultivable and more than 70% population depend upon livestock for their livelihood. Animal rearing is the centuries old occupation of farmers. The province produces 45% and 22% sheep and goat population of the country. Different diseases such as, Enterotoxaemia, sheep and goat Pox, Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia, Anthrax and Hemorrhagic Septicemia, Peste des Petits ruminants and Foot and Mouth disease are the most common infections of small and large ruminants. Vaccination covers hardly 10% of the population. The role of livestock in poverty reduction inevitable. Although animal health care facilities are available throughout the province but still it needs to be expanded and improved. Establishment of new Vaccine production centers in the province may be helpful to cover the vaccination of animals.