Veterinary Science & Technology

Debre Markos Agricultural Research Center, Debre markos, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Assessment and Evaluation of Farmer?s Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Dissemination Routes of Livestock Vaccines in Assosa Zone
  Author(s): Betelihem Yirdaw*, Dessie Abera, Habtamu Alebachew and Bekisisa Urga
  
  Vaccine is one of the major ways of preventing and controlling infectious diseases in livestock. The aim of the study was to evaluate and know available vaccines, to identify and characterize factors responsible for vaccine failures in order to support improvement against disease, to understand the vaccine management and vaccine delivery system. A cross-sectional semi structural questionnaire survey was developed. A total of 86 farm owners from three districts Assosa, Bambasi, and Homosha, there were 52, 18 and 16 participants, respectively. In this study three species of animals, six farmers who have goat, 76 farmers who have cattle and 4 farmers who have poultry were included in the survey. All most all respondents in Bambasi (100%), Assosa (88.5%), and Homosha (87.5%) can use and were known about vaccines but not about all type of vaccines. In other study vaccination was the most w.. Read More»
  

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