Abstract:
Diseases have continued to affect producdon and produc;?.. ¦ h*
systems in Uganda. This study
establish Fiirniers' :
burden in the Eastern
(WR) agro-ecologicai zow :
household beads or
k.
Lake \
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Statistical Software and descriptive statistics «ener:i; . d tn L: ; ?,
?.dairy farming
of disease
.
"
tern Rangelands
io 150 farm
;;«? using SPSS
.mu yjkcriminant analysis
and Multivariate Analysis of Variance wore computed U)c!
.
behveen variables. East Coast fever (ECF), calf scours, fo - / • .
reported of high prevalence (>50%). while brucellosis
relationships (P<0.05)
U:? and fascioliasis were
eye iir.cction had low prevalence
(<16.7%). Season, age and breed of cattle were signiHcantly associated with severity, morbidity,
mortality and treatment costs in all AEZs. Morbidity and mortality were higher during the long
(4.5; 0.7) than short rains (3.1; 0.6), respectively. Comparatively, average treatment costs were
higher during the short rains (USS 22) compared to long rains (USS 17) each rains lasting three
months. Results of our study show that some diseases were common to all AEZs, yet ESAZ had