Providing understanding to the farmer community during the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak is very important, regarding the limited information media and interactions with the competent people to the problems, which is also due to the limited facilities and infrastructure. This activity was carried out in Prai Paha village and Mbinu Dita village, Nggaha Ori Angu district (Thursday and Saturday, 11-13/02/2021). The enthusiasm of the residents was proved by the presence of around 50 participants consisting of 32 public and 18 students and church youths who run pig farming business.
The activities carried out were socialization to provide understanding and education to the community about various things related to the plague that was attacking and the vaccination of pigs in the two villages. This two-day activity was divided into 2 processes. The first day was the presentation of the material by the resource person and questions and answers with the participants, as well as livestock vaccination. On the second day, the activity was focused on vaccination only.
Luter Mungguway, A.Md.Pt and Benyamin Juruhapa, A.Md.Pt were the resource persons in this activity and the supervisor from the Animal Husbandry Service of East Sumba regency, who conveyed some important things such as understanding the viruses and diseases of pigs and the importance of vaccination in livestock. They also did field visits to see the problems that occurred. Through this activity, it turned out that the virus that attacked the residents' pigs was Hog Cholera. This virus already has a vaccine, so they immediately vaccinated 50 local livestock.
On
the second day, the activities focused on vaccinating livestock. The residents
waited at their houses and during this activity, 55 livestock were successfully
vaccinated. The facilitation and vaccination activity made the residents happy
because for almost 2 years there had never been any vaccination for their
livestock, even this activity had helped to vaccinate more than 100 livestock.
The
Multiplication program of Stube HEMAT in Sumba is considered important because
it helps the community through the establishment of a collaboration with the
village administrator and the animal husbandry agency, becoming a permanent
program for vaccinating pigs every 6 months. ***
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