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. 2018 Aug 23;146(16):2086–2095. doi: 10.1017/S0950268818002443

Table 3.

Smallholder farmer knowledge, attitudes and practice responses towards FMD vaccination programmes, by region and gender of respondent categories

Province categories Gender respondent categories
XYL XK HP P-value Female Male P-value
Able to answer FMD (%) 44 82 34 <0.001 61 65 0.6
Farmer knowledge on basic biosecurity practices (/7)
% scored ⩽4 78 38 50 <0.001 53 63 0.2
% scored ⩾5 22 62 50 47 37
Morbidity and mortality in the herd reduced 83 87 80 0.6 80 92 0.5
Ranking FMD vaccination (%)
Very good 67 71 74 0.4 68 78 0.5
Good 26 15 20 20 20
Acceptable 7 13 6 11 2
Not acceptable 0 2 0 1 0
Would still be interested in FMD vaccination if some payment required
Yes (%) 100 96 98 0.3 97 100 0.3
Mean amount willing to pay (US$) 0.8 ± 0.5 0.5 ± 0.3 0.6 ± 0.6 0.6 ± 0.4 0.6 ± 0.5
Stock vaccinated for FMD in the last 6 months
Yes (%) 92 91 98 0.2 96 88 0.06
Mean animal vaccinated 8 ± 6.0 7 ± 4.2 7 ± 5.2 7 ± 5.4 6 ± 5.2
% of the total adults 78 ± 32 87 ± 38 92 ± 21 89 ± 29 77 ± 35
Stock vaccinated for FMD regularly in the last 4 years (%) 75 85 93 0.03 87 78 0.1