Socioeconomic Characteristics Influencing Level of Awareness of Aflatoxin Contamination of Feeds among Livestock Farmers in Meru District of Tanzania

Table 6

Adjusted association between socioeconomic characteristics and feed aflatoxin awareness variables.

Socioeconomic characteristics	Having heard about aflatoxin(s)		Perceiving aflatoxin presence in feeds		Being able to detect feed mould		Perceiving aflatoxin detoxification in feeds
	AOR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value
Gender
Female	1.6 (0.7–3.5)	0.27	1.1 (0.6–1.8)	0.82	1.1 (0.3–4.3)	0.93	1.6 (0.7–3.5)	0.23
Male (r)
Respondents’ age
≤45 yrs	1.6 (0.6–4.1)	0.36	1.1 (0.6–2.0)	0.74	4.1 (0.6–27.6)	0.15	1.1 (0.4–2.7)	0.83
>45 yrs (r)
Education level
High	1.5 (0.3–8.2)	0.65	2.0 (1.2–3.3)	0.01	1.4 (0.6–3.2)	0.50	1.4 (0.2–8.0)	0.72
Low (r)
Education stage
≤secondary (r)
Secondary	1.6 (0.3–7.7)	0.53	2.4 (0.6–10.0)	0.21	1.0 (0.01–93.5)	0.93	3.2 (0.3–33.6)	0.32
Tertiary	2.4 (0.4–17.0)	0.37	1.1 (0.4–3.3)	0.85	1.9 (0.8–4.5)	0.13	2.3 (0.3–16.0)	0.38
Field of specialization
Life/social sc.	5.8 (2.7–12.6)	0.00	1.3 (0.4–4.0)	0.66	1.4 (0.1–1.5)	0.77	1.3 (0.3–6.0)	0.71
None/other fields (r)
Employment category
Formal	1.2 (0.2–6.8)	0.81	1.3 (0.4–3.9)	0.62	4.8 (1.0–23.5)	0.05	5.8 (0.8–43.7)	0.09
Informal (r)
Occupation category
Farming (r)
Nonfarming	1.9 (0.5–6.8)	0.33	1.1 (0.5–2.50)	0.79	1.2 (0.1–22.5)	0.91	1.0 (0.3–3.8)	0.94
Animal keeping experience
≤10 yrs	1.4 (0.5–3.8)	0.50	1.5 (0.8–2.8)	0.16	1.6 (0.3–10.3)	0.60	2.9 (1.4–6.3)	0.01
>10 yrs (r)
Location (wards)
Ambureni (r)
Imbaseny	6.0 (1.4–25.5)	0.01	0.3 (0.1–1.2)	0.09	0.4 (0.1–2.5)	0.31	1.9 (0.4–7.0)	0.48

AOR: adjusted odd ratio; (r): reference.