A Proposed Information System for Communicating Foot-and-Mouth Disease Events among Livestock Stakeholders in Gairo District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Table 3

Time taken by livestock keepers to receive FMD outbreaks information from different sources and sources of FMD information.

Livestock farming system	Variables	Frequencies	Percent (%)
Time taken by livestock keepers’ communities to receive information during FMD outbreaks
Zero-grazing (N = 39)	Within 1 hour	2	5
	Within 6 hours	1	3
	Within 12 hours	3	8
	Within 1 day	4	10
	More than 1 day	26	67
	No information at all	3	8
	Total	39	100
Agropastoralism (N = 39)	Within 1 day	6	15
	Within 6 hours	0	0
	Within 12 hours	0	0
	Within 1 day	0	0
	More than 1 day	29	74
	No information at all	4	10
	Total	39	100
Pastoralism (N = 52)	Within 1 hour	1	2
	Within 6 hours	3	6
	Within 12 hours	0	0
	Within 1 day	6	12
	More than 1 day	41	79
	No information at all	1	2
	Total	52	100
Sources of FMD information in livestock keepers communities
Zero-grazing (N = 43)	VET professional	11	19
	Other livestock keepers	39	67
	Special meetings	1	2
	Just hearing rumours	7	12
	Others	0	0
	Total	58	100
Agropastoralism (N = 49)	VET professional	5	8
	Other livestock keepers	44	75
	Special meetings	0	0
	Just hearing rumours	4	7
	Others	6	10
	Total	59	100
Pastoralism (N = 55)	VET professional	0	0
	Other livestock keepers	54	91
	Special meetings	1	2
	Just hearing rumours	0	0
	Others	4	7
	Total	59	100