The role of the state in stock farming in rural areas: A case study of Hertzog, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

 
 
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Title The role of the state in stock farming in rural areas: A case study of Hertzog, Eastern Cape, South Africa
 
Creator Jenjezwa, Vimbai R. Seethal, Cecil E.P.
 
Subject — Animal healthcare; State; Stock farmer; Veterinary services
Description This study examined the role of the state in providing veterinary services to resource-poor stock farmers. Communal stock farmers in most rural areas have low incomes and generally poor access to commercial veterinary healthcare. The state veterinary services thus offer a means for stock farmers to maintain the health of their livestock and receive information on animal healthcare. Interviews and participant observation were used to collect data about animal healthcare practices in Hertzog, a village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.The findings were that the state played an important role in animal healthcare and in the education of farmers. However, the lack of a skilled workforce was a constraint to effective service delivery, whilst veterinary educational institutions that disseminate information to the stock farmers were not utilised. It is thus important to fully utilise training centres to educate stock farmers and for more incentives to be given to state employees, so as to attract the necessary skilled personnel to improve service delivery.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre
Date 2014-08-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Interviews; Participant observation
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jsava.v85i1.912
 
Source Journal of the South African Veterinary Association; Vol 85, No 1 (2014); 7 pages 2224-9435 1019-9128
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Hertzog, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa October to November 2008; March to June 2009 30 respondents between 23 and 87 years; 8 females and 22 males; Mixed race and amaXhosa
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Vimbai R. Jenjezwa, Cecil E.P. Seethal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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