Importance of ITKs in cost-effective livestock health management: An opportunities and challenges

Indigenous technical knowledge refers to the traditional, local, and often informal knowledge systems developed by indigenous communities over generations to address their specific needs and challenges, encompassing practices, skills, techniques, and innovations related to agriculture, medicine, ecology, architecture, and more. It helps people use their reasoning and creative thinking to solve the majority of their problems, also known as Farmers Wisdom or Farmers Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS), Local Knowledge (LK), Traditional Knowledge (TK), and Indigenous Technical Knowledge. This is a functional knowledge system that is centred on communities and has been developed, maintained, and improved over generations through interactions, observations, and experiments with the environment. In rural areas, especially in farming communities, ITK plays a big role in people’s lives. The farming community continues to have a strong belief in its traditional knowledge despite advancements in technology. This knowledge is primarily communicated orally among members of specific cultures and is expressed through myths, stories, songs, rituals, beliefs, etc.