Assessment of Factors Influencing the Implementation of Biosecurity Measures on Pig Farms in the Western Highlands of Cameroon (Central Africa)

Table 3

Regression result of socioeconomic characteristics of pig farmers and technical characteristic of farms influencing the biosecurity score of farms.

Characteristics	Regression coefficient	-value
Socioeconomic characteristics of farmers
Age (years)		0.953
Gender
Male	0.552	0.658
Female	Ref.
Education
Higher education	1.489	0.309
Secondary education		0.858
Primary education	0.847	0.571
Never been to school	Ref.
Training in animal husbandry
Yes answer	0.387	0.985
No answer	Ref.
Main activity
Crop producer or breeder		0.103
Trader or civil servant		0.315
Retired	Ref.
Member of a cooperative
Yes	0.611	0.591
No	Ref.
Technical characteristic of farms
Farm age (years)	0.121	0.270
Herd size	0.017	0.596
Husbandry
Extensive system		0.000
Semi-extensive		0.005
Intensive	Ref.

; extensive system = animals of relatively small number are permanently penned and feed on agriculture by-products and kitchen wastes; semi-intensive system = cross-bred animals are permanently penned in piggeries with a roughcast floor and feed on kitchen waste, agricultural by-products and often industrial feed; intensive system = animals are improved breeds, indoors, in high number; the piggery is a modern building; feedstuff is exclusively industrial; management system is modern.