25-Title: Goat farmer’s understanding and attitude towards biosecurity in Madhya Pradesh

Authors: Surendra Singh Jaitawat, Hari R and Suman Sant

Source: Ruminant Science (2022)-11(2):377-382.

How to cite this manuscript: Jaitawat Surendra Singh, Hari R and Sant Suman (2022). Goat farmer’s understanding and attitude towards biosecurity in Madhya Pradesh. Ruminant Science 11(2):377-382.

Abstract

The present study was carried out to determine the socio-economic characteristic of the goat owners and awareness, attitude and adoption of biosecurity practices by the goat farmers of Rewa and Sidhi districts of Madhya Pradesh. The socio-personal study shows that most of the farmers belong to the middle group i.e. between 37 and 58 years; they were mostly illiterates only 1.25% of farmers were graduates; 84.37% of respondents were males. The study shows that the awareness, attitude and adoption of biosecurity practices by the goat farmers of Rewa and Sidhi division were very low. Only 3.75% of the farmers have heard about the term biosecurity; about 85% of farmers did not know that diseases are spread from feral animals to goats. But all the respondents knew that goats can get infected by other goats. Also, 52.5% of the respondents knew that microbes cause disease in goats. 68.75% of the respondents had a poor attitude towards biosecurity. Thus, the result depicts that more work needs to be conducted in the area to enhance their awareness and attitude towards biosecurity measures and augment their attitudes towards biosecurity.

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