The quality of the animal health care services delivered depends on the Knowledge and Skill updation of the qualified veterinary service providers (Veterinary Officers- VO). This study was aimed at studying the Training Need Assessment (TNA) of the VO’s in Andhra Pradesh. A survey was conducted through Google forms in a structured interview schedule by electronically, from 130 veterinary Officers working under state government of Andhra Pradesh. Data was collected through Gmail and WhatsApp, regarding the training needs of VO’s on different parameters covering different major subject areas of field importance and was presented in means and percentages. Most of the respondents were Males (74%) with an average experience in the field is 10 years and majority of them attended 8 subject related trainings in their service. Majority opined that they need training on Blood sample examination (72%), Sheep farming(65%), Ethno veterinary medicine (85%), Skill in surgical operations (86%), Infertility cases therapeutics (84%), Metabolic diseases (75%), Service rules and regulations (97%) and Complete feed preparation (79%). Majority of the respondents needed such trainings once in six months (68%), to be conducted as three day residential (57%) including much practical aspects (92%). Provision of the adequate resources and support by the public and private stakeholders for organizing need based trainings to the Veterinary Officers will help in achieving the knowledge updation of the field veterinarians.
In the present ICT era of communication, social media is playing a pivotal role in reducing the communication gap and sharing the information instantly anywhere in the world. Among various social media, WhatsApp particularly helps in formation of common interest groups for different categories of people for sharing information. The present study was undertaken with this objective, to study the effectiveness of WhatsApp communications on advisory services delivered to the livestock owners, in Andhra Pradesh. A WhatsApp group named “PASU VIGNANA VEDIKA” was created for the study purpose, to provide the livestock related information to the farmers instantly. A total of 95 farmers and 10 Veterinary Officers, using WhatsApp in their smart phones were selected and included in PASU VIGNANA VEDIKA”. After 90 days of study period, the results were collected by personal interview method through structured interview schedule, analyzed and presented in frequencies and percentages. The majority of the livestock farmers had Favourable attitude (61.05%) towards using the WhatsApp group for farming purpose, opined that the information is easy to read (100%), and listen (89%), timely availability (89.47%), out of the queries posted in WhatsApp group majority were regarding health of animals (54.17%) especially skin, mastitis and digestive disorders. Further, most of the farmers used text based messages (56.25%) followed by photos (31.25%) of ailing animals. In view of the vast opportunities through WhatsApp group formation, government policies should be framed in such a way to utilize the full potential of this method of communication for the welfare of farming community.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.