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Item Immunisation of Small-Holder Cattle against East Coast Fever in Kiambu District, Kenya(East African Agricultural and Forestry, 1994) East African Agricultural and Forestry; K.A.R.I (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute)Immunisation against ECF can be undertaken successfully in small holder farms. However, as the technique uses live parasites which are potentially lethal, the cattle need to be monitored after immunisation. Monitoring is a major constraint and influences the cost of immunisation. During earlier immunisation trials (Mutugi et ai. 1989) the immunised cattle were monitored daily. In this trial, the cattle were monitored once every 3 days. This increased the number of cattle that could be immunised and reduced the cost of the immunisation since the small.holdings were spread over large areas.Item Research Proposal for Funding Under KARI/DFID Narp II Programme(Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, 1998) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute; KARI ( National Veterinary Research Centre )Until recently tick control was almost entirely dependent on the unrelenting use of chemical acaricides. It is still the case in many farming systems. It is, however, now known that acaricides alone do not provide a stable, long term solution to the problem of ticks and tick-borne diseases. This is because ticks strains to the acaricides. Acaricides are also highly expensive and unaffordable to the majority of resource poor farmers. Environmental concerns and their adverse effect on the endemic stability to tick-borne diseases with severe consequences for any breakdown are other undesirable characteristics of acaricides.
