A field study investigated the effects of foot and mouth disease vaccine storage temperature for 7 days (frozen, refrigerated or held at ambient temperature) and dose (half or full dose) on the serological response to vaccination. It utilised a complete factorial design replicated on 18 smallholder cattle farms in three villages in Pursat province, Cambodia. Antibody responses from the 108 catt...

In this study 495 smallholder dairy farms in 52 villages of different township in southwestern province of Iran (Chaharmohal and Bakhtiari province) included 1321 lactating cows and 2811 total mature cows (lactating and dry) during winter 2009 to summer 2010 were used to estimate economic opportunities insmallholder dairy farms. Questionnaire survey was used to collect data from last year infor...

There is a general lack of data on the different patterns of dynamics and impact of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in South-East Asia and the impact the disease has on different sectors, in particular the smallholder sector in which livestock play such an important role. A pilot study was conducted of a recent outbreak of FMD that swept across the southern part of Laos during the second half of 1...

Lack of agricultural information has been attributed to the inability of smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Recent efforts to improve smallholder access to agricultural information have seen increased application of ICT technologies in developing agriculture. These efforts use ICT-based market information to reduce transaction costs of smallholder part...

Smallholder dairy production is increasingly becoming popular in Jimma town. However, feed shortage is a major constraint to dairy production. The objectives of this study was to assess feed resources, feeding practices and farmers' perceived causes of feed shortage and coping strategies to feed scarcity in smallholder dairy producers in Jimma town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. A total of 5...

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors to support household economy in West Nusa Tenggara (WNT), dominated by small holder farmers. This paper aims provide insight on smallholder farmers attitude access bank under integrated crop-livestock system WNT. A survey was conducted 2021 East Lombok, Sumbawa and Bima districts covering 103 study found that Lombok has less interaction with comp...

Abstract Livestock is an important and potential agricultural sub-sector in Aceh Province. Because of the climate social conditions community, this business able to increase income farmers. This study used primary data from 400 farmer respondents secondary library research. aimed analyze characteristics cattle husbandry management province. The results descriptive research showed that livestock...

Empowering smallholder cattle farmers through the Field station of School for Smallholder Community (SL-SPR) Program is one efforts to improve reproductive performance Bali in farmers. This research aims evaluate reared semi-intensively SL-SPR Sungai Lilin, South Sumatra. Data on were collected from observation method direct and interviews with respondents community. The was totally 45 farmers,...