TABLE 2.
Dairy farmers' knowledge and practices about aflatoxins in South Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2020 (n = 100)
| Variables | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|
| How do you know about milk safety | Senses | 75 |
| Need tests | 25 | |
| Do you know milk safety tests | Yes | 10 |
| no | 90 | |
| How do you store milk | Refrigerator | 15 |
| Plastic buckets | 69 | |
| Aluminum cans | 5 | |
| Cold place | 11 | |
| Dose milk can be contaminated | Yes | 98 |
| No | 2 | |
| Experience milk spoilage | Yes | 78 |
| No | 22 | |
| What do you do to spoiled milk | Discard | 20 |
| Give to animals | 15 | |
| Make butter | 48 | |
| Heat and use | 17 | |
| Heard about aflatoxin in the milk sample | Yes | 38 |
| No | 62 | |
| Knowledge about the causes of aflatoxin in the milk sample (n = 38) | No | 8 |
| Contaminated animal feed | 8 | |
| Storing animal feed in Moist place | 20 | |
| Other | 2 | |
| Is aflatoxin have a health problem(n = 38) | No | 6 |
| Gastrointestinal problem | 20 | |
| Liver problem | 6 | |
| Poisoning | 5 | |
| Death | 1 | |