CAMAGÜEY- The evaluation of the impact of Gavac® in Cuba, the analysis of the results of the first vaccination campaign in 2019 and the presentation of strategies to accomplish the incorporation of 2 million cows to the Integrated Control Program of Ticks (ICPT), are the main themes to be debated during the National Workshop of Strategic Agricultural Products, that is developing in the province from today to the next 15th.
The workshop, led by the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB, Spanish acronym) along with the Department of Animal Healthcare (DSA, Spanish acronym), has among its objectives to increase the demand of Cuban Immunogens on a national scale, to present in every province the advance of the program and to exchange experiences with the reference coordinators and producers.
Today over 30 per cent of the county’s beef cattle is included in the ICPT. Over a million 300 000 cows received benefits from the immunogen Gavac® in 2018; that number is the highest in the 20 years of application of the vaccine. Gavac® is destined to the control of the tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus in livestock, species that represent the 84 per cent of the tick that exist in the country.
In the National Workshop of Strategic Agricultural Products, there will be the executives of the Epizootiology Department, responsible of the Veterinary Medicine Basic Stock, the National Coordination of the product, and guests from the direction of livestock in the Agricultural Ministry, from the direction of genetics and livestock registry, Labiofam, cattle entities and business groups.
- Translated by Elianna Díaz Mendieta