eng Ansari Education and Research Society Journal of Ultra Scientist of Physical Sciences December 2008 20 3 535 540 jusps-B 1335 article Adewole S.O. (samson_adewole@yahoo.com) 1 Alofe, A.T. 1 University of Ado-Ekiti, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State (NIGERIA) <p style="text-align: justify;">The economic lisses on some selected food crops and cash crop due to guinea worm disease (<em>Dracunculiasis</em>) were studied in some endemic communities of Ekiti State, Nigeria, during the period of November 2004 to March 2006. The annual losses due to guinea worm infection on rice, maize, cassava, yam, beans and cocoa production were estimated at N 17,773,500.00 (US$122,575.86). There was a significant difference (P&lt;0.05) between the quantities of crops produced during the period of infection and the quantities produced when there was no infection. There was a drastic fall in crops&#39; production due to inability to treck long distances to their farm as a result of severe incapacitation. The loss in crop output at the farm level translates to increase in vicious circle of poverty and starvation. The great dependence on human labour thus underscores the problem posed by the disease factor in rural lobour supply.<br /> &nbsp;</p> https://ultraphysicalsciences.org/paper/1335/ Economic losse(s) Guinea worm disease/Dracunculiasis crops Endemic incapacitation