DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MODULE ON BRUCELLOSIS IN DAIRY ANIMALS
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2018
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ICAR-NDRI, KARNAL
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Livestock population in India is threatened by disease outbreaks, droughts, floods and other climatic anomalies. There are several diseases affecting production of livestock, human health, trade of livestock and animal products. Among these, Brucellosis is the second most important zoonotic disease of the world after rabies. It is one of the highly contagious ubiquitous reproductive disease of dairy animals and its prevalence varying from 0.13 to 44.00 percent. The study was purposively conducted in Haryana and Punjab state. From each state, three districts were selected purposively based on highest cattle population in and from each district 20 respondents were selected. Thus, a total of 120 respondents were selected based on snowball sampling method and interviewed on the criteria that they should have at least 25 dairy animals. Apart from this, 10 veterinarians from each district were selected constituting of total 60 veterinarians as respondents. An Educational Module and Mobile Application on brucellosis prevention were developed and its effectiveness in knowledge gain was collected from half of total respondents i.e. 60 respondents for each. Data were collected through well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The study revealed that nearly half (45.83%) of respondents were young, small and large family size (39.17% to respective category), had qualification up-to higher secondary education, medium land holding (44.17%) and low annual income category (47.50%). Average herd size of respondents was 42.14 animal per farm. Majority (61.67%) of the respondents used artificial insemination (AI), average milk production was 173.77 litres/day per farm. Respondents had medium experience (54.17%) in commercial dairy farming, 96.17 percent consulting with paravet, preference to community butcher for disposal of dead body of animals (66.17%) and aware about rabies (92.50%). It was seen that majority of respondents following regular vaccination for HS, Black Quarter and Theileriosis. All the respondents wash udder before milking, 96.67 percent wash hands before and after milking, rapidly disposal of dead cattle body practiced by 96.67 percent, burying aborted fetus with slaked lime (90.83%), daily cleaning of animals shed (93.33%), daily feeding and water trough cleaning (90.00%) and taking specific action to keep wildlife/stray animals away (80.00%). Half of the respondents were having a high perceptual level towards brucellosis disease risk and Significant association was found between perception of commercial dairy towards brucellosis disease risk and independent variables like landholding, annual income, herd size and milk production. About half of VOs (56.67%) were having a high perceptual level followed by moderate perceptual level towards brucellosis disease risk (25.00%). The overall mean knowledge gain of commercial dairy farmers through educational module with regards to brucellosis was 34.51 percent while overall mean knowledge gain with regards to brucellosis through Mobile Application was found to be 43.05 percent. Majority of the respondents and field officers were satisfied with Educational Module and Mobile application. Increase in knowledge about brucellosis was significantly associated with education, landholding, income, herd size and experience in commercial dairy farming which indicates their importance in implementing of educational programme and ICT based intervention.