Diseases, pests and predators are a major constraint of indigenous poultry industry. Farmers have tried to combat these constraints by using conventional approaches but these have limitations like being expensive, not ...

Forty percent of Uganda’s population is engaged in poultry production to supply the growing population with poultry meat and eggs. From 2017 to 2020, Uganda’s population increased from 39 million to 41.6 million (National ...

Raw vegetable salads are regularly implicated in foodborne illnesses globally. There is wide consumption of vegetable salads, mainly comprised of onions, tomatoes and cabbages, along with street vended foods in Uganda. ...

A cross sectional non-invasive study was carried out to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal coccid parasites in faecal samples of chimpanzees from Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC). 50 faecal samples were ...

In Uganda, pig production has dramatically increased over the last three decades owing to the growing demand for pork, but with little attention to the welfare of pigs. The study hypothesis was that pig welfare practices ...

GIT parasites are common in developing countries with the high prevalence and heavy infestation often reported in such countries is attributed to the fact that dogs are rarely treated for parasitic diseases. Among these ...

The hides and skins value chain is a key income source in the global livestock sector. However, in Uganda's Kiruhura district, the cattle-keeping community has not fully exploited this non-food livestock product due to ...

Ruminant helminths are found in all parts of the world, including the tropical and subtropical regions. Sanga sub county, Kiruhura district, Uganda is one of the areas prone to the activity of gastrointestinal helminths ...

Dudu-acelamectin is a crop pesticide misused by some farmers in Uganda for tick control. The farmers who use it allege that it causes adverse effects on livestock and on human who get exposed to it during the spraying. ...

Human activities in protected areas have long been associated with negative effects on the demographic characteristics of the predator-prey biosphere, with scarce information categorising their effects on the wellbeing of ...