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Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques
Improvements to smallholder farming are essential to improvements in rural prosperity. Small farmers in the Kaziranga region of Assam operate mixed farming enterprises in a resource limited environment, which is subject to seasonal flooding. Participatory techniques, were used to elucidate the anima...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32970707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237902 |
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author | Hopker, Andy Pandey, Naveen Hopker, Sophie Saikia, Dibyajyoti Goswami, Jadumoni Marsland, Rebecca Thrusfield, Michael Saikia, Roopam Kundu, Sumanta Sargison, Neil |
author_facet | Hopker, Andy Pandey, Naveen Hopker, Sophie Saikia, Dibyajyoti Goswami, Jadumoni Marsland, Rebecca Thrusfield, Michael Saikia, Roopam Kundu, Sumanta Sargison, Neil |
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description | Improvements to smallholder farming are essential to improvements in rural prosperity. Small farmers in the Kaziranga region of Assam operate mixed farming enterprises in a resource limited environment, which is subject to seasonal flooding. Participatory techniques, were used to elucidate the animal health challenges experienced in this landscape in order to inform and guide future animal health education and interventions. The flooding is essential for agricultural activities, but is a source of major losses and disruption. Farmers experience significant losses to their crops due to raiding by wild species such as elephants; predation of livestock by wild carnivores is also of concern. Access to veterinary services and medicines is limited by both financial and geographic constraints. Interviewees discussed nutritional and management issues such as poor availability of fodder and grazing land, while meeting attendees preferred to concentrate discussions on animal health issues. Livestock keepers were adept and consistent at describing disease syndromes. The key challenges identified by farmers were: foot-and-mouth disease; Newcastle disease; haemorrhagic septicaemia; chronic fasciolosis; diarrhoea; bloating diseases; goat pox; and sarcoptic mange. Improvements in the efficiency of farming in this region is a prerequisite for the local achievement of United Nations Sustainable development goals. There exist clear opportunities to increase productivity and prosperity among farmers in this region through a combination of vaccination programmes and planned animal management schemes, driven by a programme of participatory farmer education. |
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spelling | pubmed-75139942020-10-01 Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques Hopker, Andy Pandey, Naveen Hopker, Sophie Saikia, Dibyajyoti Goswami, Jadumoni Marsland, Rebecca Thrusfield, Michael Saikia, Roopam Kundu, Sumanta Sargison, Neil PLoS One Research Article Improvements to smallholder farming are essential to improvements in rural prosperity. Small farmers in the Kaziranga region of Assam operate mixed farming enterprises in a resource limited environment, which is subject to seasonal flooding. Participatory techniques, were used to elucidate the animal health challenges experienced in this landscape in order to inform and guide future animal health education and interventions. The flooding is essential for agricultural activities, but is a source of major losses and disruption. Farmers experience significant losses to their crops due to raiding by wild species such as elephants; predation of livestock by wild carnivores is also of concern. Access to veterinary services and medicines is limited by both financial and geographic constraints. Interviewees discussed nutritional and management issues such as poor availability of fodder and grazing land, while meeting attendees preferred to concentrate discussions on animal health issues. Livestock keepers were adept and consistent at describing disease syndromes. The key challenges identified by farmers were: foot-and-mouth disease; Newcastle disease; haemorrhagic septicaemia; chronic fasciolosis; diarrhoea; bloating diseases; goat pox; and sarcoptic mange. Improvements in the efficiency of farming in this region is a prerequisite for the local achievement of United Nations Sustainable development goals. There exist clear opportunities to increase productivity and prosperity among farmers in this region through a combination of vaccination programmes and planned animal management schemes, driven by a programme of participatory farmer education. Public Library of Science 2020-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7513994/ /pubmed/32970707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237902 Text en © 2020 Hopker et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hopker, Andy Pandey, Naveen Hopker, Sophie Saikia, Dibyajyoti Goswami, Jadumoni Marsland, Rebecca Thrusfield, Michael Saikia, Roopam Kundu, Sumanta Sargison, Neil Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title | Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title_full | Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title_fullStr | Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title_full_unstemmed | Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title_short | Animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: A study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
title_sort | animal health perceptions and challenges among smallholder farmers around kaziranga national park, assam, india: a study using participatory epidemiological techniques |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32970707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237902 |
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