Awareness of Dairy Farmers about Brucellosis Disease

A study was undertaken to determine the awareness status of dairy farmers about brucellosis disease in dairy animals. Pre-structured and pre-tested interview schedule was presented to 115 respondents, who had visited Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, GADVASU, Ludhiana. The study revealed that the very less farmers (22.60%) were aware about this disease. Further, there was low level of awareness about routes of transmission, zoonotic aspect of the disease, need for vaccination, culling of infected animals and other preventive measures against brucellosis. However, the awareness level was positively correlated with education level, herd size and training of the farmers. So, there is urgent need to create awareness amongst dairy farmers about various control and preventive measures against brucellosis through various educational cum awareness programmes to curtail it as well as to minimise the economic losses occurring due to it.