Farm animals are the domesticated animals adopted for the production of milk and meat products. Generally adopted farm animals include cattle, poultry, aqua, swine, and sheep among others. The various diseases occur to farm animals include foodborne diseases, parasitic diseases; infectious diseases are due to the lack of nutrition fortified feed. Vaccines are commonly administered to the farm animals for the prevention of diseases and improve the immunity of the animals.
Some of the players in farm animal healthcare market are:
Alltech Inc. (U.S.), Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (Germany), Zoetis, Inc. (Pfizer) (U.S), Virbac AH Inc. (France), Elanco (Eli Lilly and Co.) (U.S.), Bayer HealthCare LLC, (Bayer AG) (Germany), Merck Animal Health (Merck & Co. Inc.) (U.S.), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (U.K.), and Ceva Sante Animale S.A. (France) to name a few.
The global farm animal healthcare market is growing at a healthy CAGR due to increase in the adoption of farm animal. Increase in the population preferring for healthy meat and dairy products, rise in the prevalence of foodborne diseases in animals, increase in the research and development in animal health medicine, and rise in the income for pet owners might fuel the farm animal healthcare market over the forecast period. In addition, increase in the demand for the animal source protein, the rise in the awareness about farm animal health, favourable government initiations to promote animal health, an increase in the expenditure on animal welfare might bolster the farm animal healthcare market in the future. However, stringent regulatory policies for the approval of veterinary medicines such as vaccines, high cost for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and strict regulations for the use of antibiotics in the animal might hamper the farm animal healthcare market over the forecast period.
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