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Received: 27 April 2021

Accepted: 29 December 2022

First Online: 30 January 2023

Declarations

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: Ethics approval for this research was provided by the University of Queensland, Australia, Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number #2014001425). For the application of ethics approval, the consent form prepared in English, and the questionnaire used in the study was also submitted. Even though the consent form was prepared in both English and Myanmar language, the informed consent of the study population was obtained verbally because the majority of local farmers preferred verbal communication and some of the participants were illiterate. With the agreement of participants (i.e., interviewees), the recording of the verbal consent was obtained during the study.For the application process of approval from local authority, the ethical approval of the University of Queensland, Human Research Ethics Committee along with the research plan was submitted to Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Myanmar for mutual understanding. This research was conducted by the approval of the local authority, i.e., Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation; and additional local ethical approval of Human Ethic Committee of Myanmar was not necessary for this research.This study was carried out in accordance with the appropriate guideline of research ethic committee. In this study, the questionnaire survey was conducted to collect the data and the personal details of the interviewees were kept as confidential. During the interview, the verbal consent of the interviewees for the participation was requested and no testing or sample collection from animals were conducted.

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: There are no competing interests.