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Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Year: 2013 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 874-884
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O.I. Oladele

A.E. Kolawole

M.A. Antwi

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Knowledge of Biosecurity among Livestock Farmers along Border Villages of South Africa and Botswana

O.I. Oladele, A.E. Kolawole and M.A. Antwi
This study examines livestock farmers’ knowledge of biosecurity along border villages of South Africa and Botswana. This is based on the fact that due to trans-boundary livestock activities between these countries farmers along the border villages are predisposed to inter-boundary disease transmission, which can be prevented by adequate biosecurity management practices. The population of study is all livestock producers in border villages along North West province, a mix of purposive and random sampling were used to select 199 respondents from which data were collected and analyzed with descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The results show that 63% of the livestock farmers fall within the age 61 years and above. It is also revealed that 83.4% of the farmers are male, 66.8% of the farmers are married; most of the farmers are literate 61.8% of the respondents have less than five dependents, 94% of the farmers have livestock based farming system, 68.3% reported that they have no contact with extension agent, 96.0% have no access to market farmers personal and farm characteristics were significantly related to the farmers knowledge of livestock biosecurity practices. The F value of 3.74 shows a strong relationship between the independent variable and farmers’ knowledge livestock biosecurity practices. The significant determinant at 5% sig. level are farm size (t = 3.343); extension contacts (t = -2.427); labour sources (t = -3.046), income (t = 2.113) while household size t = -1.729 and sources of land t = 1.867 are significant 10% sig. level.
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