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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Veterinary Medicine × Author: Rajeshirke, Ajay × Start date: 1979 × Thesis Type: M.V.Sc ×
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    DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL GOAT HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM INCLUDING EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ECONOMY RECORDS FOR PRODUCTION
    (AAU, Anand, 2001) Rajeshirke, Ajay; Raval, S. K.
    The epidemiological surveillance is urgent need of today. In India increased pressure on land-favoured maintenance of small ruminants like sheep and goat. The goat with their multipurpose utility (meat, skin, fleece, manure and milk), play an important role in our national economy. The study was carried out from 1 st March 2000 to 28th, March, 2001 in five villages of Anand taluka. The epidemiological data on diseases through rural goat health surveillance system were studied in relation to production/ reproduction performance, prevalence of diseases, mortalities and culling patterns among rural goat. In addition to that economic losses due to diseases were also analyzed. Kachia Patel (1999) made efforts in his study to generate and analyze epidemiological data for disease health surveillance and economy records for production from rural sheep. The epidemiological data on disease incidence and mortality in relation to age, sex, breed, health hygiene, nutritional status, housing pattern, months, season, meteorological parameters and economics of the diseases in relation to its losses were also studied. During research period, 1,128 goats were studied, out of that 690 goat were found to be affected with disease with the overall prevalence rate of 61.17 percent. The highest prevalence of disease were observed due to parasitic diseases (26.32%), majority in Marwadi breed (81.90%) and in the age group of adult goat (81.72%). The overall high prevalence of disease was recorded in female animals (61.22%), with poor and fair health status (64.96 and 61.14%), in small size flock (70.43%)), flock which were reared in poor hygienic condition (64.59%) and with poor nutrition status (85.89%). The higher prevalence in the month of July- Aug (15.42%) and particularly in monsoon season (28.90%) indicates the positive relationship with high rainfall along with high humidity. Out of all different disease groups, major predominant groups in descending order of occurrence were recorded as parasitic diseases (26.32%), miscellaneous group (11.79%), digestive disorder (9.84%), bacterial disease (7.35%), viral diseases (2.83), reproductive disorder (2,12%.) and fungal diseases (0.88%). Amongst these, different diseases the gastrointestinal nematode (17.64%) ranked high followed by pneumonia (4.25%), enteritis 4.16%), anorexia (3.90%)and ectoparasites (3.81%) In the present study, the overall mortality rate was observed to be 5.93 percent along with 9.71 percent case fatality rate. The mortality rate was recorded highest (2.65%) in miscellaneous group with 22.55 percent case fatality rate, followed by bacterial diseases (1.50 and 20.48 %), digestive disorder (1.32 and 13.51%) and parasitic diseases (0.44 and 1.68%) respectively. Amongst above group, major cause of mortality in which disease were occurred are pneumonia (1.24%), enteritis (1.06%), septicemia (0.79%), toxemia (0.70%) and accidental death (0.62%). The mortality was found higher in Marwadi breed (6.66%), particularly in adult group (8.60%), in female animal (6.35%), having poor health condition (6.56%) and animals on poor plan of nutrition 9.05 percent respectively. Also the higher mortality was recorded in small size flock (6.78%) and in poor hygienic condition (8.75%). Higher mortality rate has also observed in the months of July-Aug. i.e. in the rainy season. In the present study, economical losses due to diseases involves treatment cost, losses due to poor growth rate, loss^ due to reproduction disorder, losses due mortality and losses due to culling were quantified. The losses due to treatment cost, losses due to poor growth rate, loss due to reproduction disorder, losses due mortality and losses due to culling were Rs. 20.50,42.92,142.12, 66.50, and 19.25 per goat, per year respectively. The use of computer programme for data recording and it analysis work indicated its usefulness in terms of time consumption for analysis along with maximum efficiency. Throughout the study period advice and recommendation were made to shepherds for improvement in management practices such as importance of hygiene, vaccination, treatment of affected animals, housing, kid management, better nutrition and care against adverse climatic condition to reduce losses and their by increase the profit. Review of literature, modalities of technique used at rural level, the achievements, constraints and suggestions for future through the development of rural goat health surveillance system using epidemiology and economy of records are described.