Rinderpest disease of cattle eradicated : Radha Mohan

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New Delhi : Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh on December 27, 2017, launched Livestock Disease Forewarning –Mobile Application (LDF-Mobile App), developed by ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics (ICAR-NIVEDI), Bengaluru, in New Delhi.

Union Agriculture Minister informed that dreaded Rinderpest, an infectious viral disease of cattle also known as cattle plague,  has been eradicated from India and stressed that similar efforts are needed to control and eradicate diseases like FMD, PPR, Brucellosis, CSF, BT, HS etc., which cause huge economic loss annually to the livestock rearers and livestock industry as a whole. Radha Mohan said that ICAR-NIVEDI has identified 13 priority diseases based on their past incidence patterns and has built a strong database of these diseases and has been providing monthly livestock disease alerts to the state and central animal husbandry departments, according to a PIB release.

Radha Mohan said that to widen its reach, ICAR-NIVEDI developed the app and used Monthly Bulletin system to send out early warning. He said the complex statistical algorithm also considers both climatic and non-climatic factors and categorizes districts into Very High Risk, High Risk, Moderate Risk, Low Risk, Very Low Risk and No Risk for a particular disease so that stakeholders can effectively plan and utilize the available resources. Apart from early warning, the app will also provide information about clinical samples for the diagnosis in case of the epidemic for immediate action.