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Udder health has potential to improve in Rwanda
Published: 22 October 2019
Dairy cows have cultural and economic importance in Rwanda, and are needed for enhanced human nutrition and food security. The Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture has prioritized research aiming at disease control for increased dairy production and productivity. Mastitis is one of the most common diseases in dairy cows.
The disease lower the milk yield, also in cows with subclinical mastitis (without visible changes in udder and milk). Subclinical mastitis constitute a majority of the cases, and besides lowering the production they maintain an infection reservoir in the herd, exposing healthy cows to contagious pathogens.
Researchers from SLU have studied mastitis in Rwanda in collaboration with University of Rwanda, the National Veterinary Institute in Sweden, and Sweden's largest farmer advisory service organization, Växa Sverige. In the study, 256 cows in 25 herds were included in the central Kigali region.
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