The Impact of Natural Disasters on Livestock Sector: A Review
- 1 August 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SciRes Literature LLC in Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences
- Vol. 2 (8), 669-674
- https://doi.org/10.37871/jbres1295
Abstract
The Livestock sector plays a central role in nature resource based livelihood of the vast majority of population and often considered as the poor people’s ATM. They are kept as a unit of production and provide an important source of revenue, employment and wealth. However this sector is facing a number of problems like bad health, shortage of feed and fodder, increase incidence of emerging and reemerging diseases etc and the most drastic amongst them being the Natural disasters like earthquake, floods, volcanoes etc. This paper gives a brief idea about the ill effects of natural disasters on the health of livestock, thereby effecting their production and productivity along with the various strategies to be kept in mind while dealing with disaster like event.Keywords
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