The Factors Influence the Biosecurity Management of Swine Farm in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Globally, biosecurity is one of the important methods to improve farm prevention under disease transmission. The study involved 240 swine farmers in Long An and Ben Tre provinces to determine social demographic characteristics and biosecurity management status and analyze the effects of social demographics on biosecurity management, including planning, implementation, controlling, and adjustment, which were collected by a random sampling method. A descriptive statistic and multiple linear regression analysis were employed to analyze the data. The results found that most respondents were male (70.4%), with an average age of 49.28 years old, with 38.3% finished undergraduate education, a mean experience of 14.48 years, having more than 4 members in the family and more than one labor take part in farming activities. Farmers were more likely to implement and adjust the biosecurity plan, while they were less focused on planning and controlling their biosecurity management. Our results found that the highest proportion was an adjustment, accounting for 75.52%, while the lowest was the controlling (61.92%), especially since farmers did not evaluate their biosecurity activities frequently. Besides, an increase in education, occupation, family members, and labor could increase 1.252, 2.627, 0.859, and 1.156 times, respectively, in biosecurity management, while age was found to have a negative impact. In conclusion, these findings emphasized the importance of considering sociodemographic characteristics when developing and implementing biosecurity strategies for small swine farms.