Agro Pastoralists’ Awareness and Knowledge on Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia in Two Selected Counties in Kenya
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Date
2022
Authors
Ouya, Fredrick Ochieng
Bett, Eric
Nguhiu, Purity
Makokha, Stella
Mwirigi, Martin K.
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Taylor and Francis
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Poor identification of Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia diseases from
its signs and symptoms is a major problem to goat farmers which leads to use of
wrong method of disease control. The uptake of control strategies like vaccination
by farmers depends on many factors while awareness and knowledge become the
foundation of the technology adoption processes. This therefore necessitated
a study to understand the level of awareness and knowledge of Contagious caprine
pleuropneumonia, which is a highly infectious goat disease. The study analysed and
used cross-sectional data collected from 342 households interviewed in October,
November, and December 2020 in Kajiado County and Taita Taveta County in Kenya.
These two counties are dominated by agro pastoralists and goat keeping is predominant. The study examines the factors influencing the agro pastoralists’
knowledge and level of awareness on the six major signs and symptoms of
Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia disease differentiating it from other goat
diseases. Multivariate probit model was the main data analysis method used.
Results show that agro pastoralists’ level of knowledge and awareness on
Contagious Caprine Pleuropnemonia disease depend significantly on other factors
such as the gender of household head, age, education level, household size, access
to extension services, and group dynamics. The findings imply that policymakers
and agricultural development partners should increase public and private investment on agro pastoralists’ training and education programmes which is one
of the main pathways for increasing public awareness in livestock dominated areas.
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Fredrick Ochieng Ouya, Eric Bett, Purity Nguhiu, Stella Makokha & Martin K Mwirigi (2022) Agro pastoralists’ awareness and knowledge on contagious caprine Pleuropneumonia in two selected counties in Kenya, Cogent Food & Agriculture, 8:1, 2140472, DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2022.2140472