@article{Elbakidze:9510,
      recid = {9510},
      author = {Elbakidze, Levan},
      title = {ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF ANIMAL TRACING IN THE CATTLE  PRODUCTION SECTOR},
      address = {2007},
      number = {1847-2016-152515},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {23},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {One of the options to prepare for a potential outbreak of  an infectious livestock disease is to initiate an animal  tracking system, which would provide information on animal  movements and facilitate disease management.  This article  examines the benefits of implementing an animal tracking  system in the context of a simulated cattle disease  outbreak with and without animal tracking.   Estimates are  provided for some of the losses that would be avoided with  an animal tracking system if an infectious animal disease  were introduced.  The results show that the economic  efficiency of an animal tracking system depends on such  factors as inter herd contact rates, effectiveness of  animal disease response actions, and the extent to which an  animal tracking system decreases the time of tracing animal  movements.  In case of a highly infectious animal disease  outbreak substantial economic losses could be avoided if an  effective animal tracking system is implemented.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9510},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9510},
}