Evaluación de las pérdidas económicas causadas por brucelosis en las comunidades de Chaguarpata y Launag en el cantón Chunchi provincia de Chimborazo.

Abstract

The following investigation's objective is to evaluate the economic losses caused by brucelosis in the communities of Chaguarpata and Launag in the Chunchi cantón of Chimborazo province. Brucelosis being a disease that in cattle is not identified mainly symptomatology that can be evidenced as many conditions, this cause mainly economic loss, male bovines are identified infertility it is also considered a vector of transmission of brucelosis in females. The population was of cattle of the different cattle ranches of the communities and it was analyzed in their totality, to be able to control in the middle this type of disease that can be infected, arriving to conclude that the 100% of population of Launag and Chaguarpata does not know about the problem of bovine brucelosis, so it is necessary to socialize this type of problems to all its inhabitants for the consequences on the owners, it identified 4 positive , of which 1 is Launag and 3 in Chaguarpata. The economic losses in terms of food were $ 1049: $ 1864 $ 1923 $ 1445 for each of the partners with positive cases giving a total of $ 6281. In the dairy production, losses are observed in a 305-day lactation of $ 1152, 9; $ 3458.7; $ 4529.25 and $ 3294 for a total of $ 12434.85. Losses for sale of animals by slaughter were $ 1580 in total of the 4 animals positive to brucelosis, finally the losses by insemination were $ 80. From the results presented it is concluded that the economic losses of the farmers for having animals positive to brucelosis is 17216 USD of which, 1842USD corresponds to the community of Launag and 15374 USD to the community of Chauarpata, these losses being very high, affecting the profitability of the farmers since they invested in technical assistance, health and animal feeding, causing a loss of investment.