Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Disease: challenges and opportunities: Proceedings of National Conference on (PPR) disease
PPR is an economically important disease for small farmers and landless who maintain sheep and goats for their livelihood
Abstract
India is an agrarian country and over 75% of the farmers being small and marginal landholders, they are heavily dependent on livestock to raise supplementary income for their livelihood. Unfortunately, a majority of the livestock is unproductive and prone to series of diseases resulting in huge economic losses. Among these diseases, Peste des Petits Ruminants(PPR) is an economically important disease particularly for small farmers and landless who maintain sheep and goats for their livelihood.
Even with excellent networking of veterinary services and good quality vaccines available in the country, our farmers are not able to take advantage of these services, resulting in high mortality ranging from 30-60%. Hence, it is proposed to establish a National Scientific Forum to ensure interaction among all the stakeholders - farmers, scientists, producers of biologicals and field functionaries for identifying the challenges in the field and to find suitable solutions.
As a first step, a National Conference on PPR Disease was organised on November 28-29, 2014 in New Delhi. The objective was to provide an opportunity to various stakeholders to share their problems and experiences which would be helpful to evolve a suitable strategy through the proposed Forum.
This work was supported by the ‘Global Alliance For Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed): Phase 2 – Protecting Livestock and Saving Human Lives’ programme
Citation
BAIF Development Research Foundation, Government of India , GALVmed (2014) Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Disease: Challenges and opportunities: Proceedings of National Conference on (PPR) disease. BAIF Development Research Foundation
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