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Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India

BACKGROUND: Farmers are extensively using pesticides for pest control in agriculture. Their precarious handling practices may lead to higher exposure resulting in adverse health effects. AIM: Current study was aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding pesticide usage and its...

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Autores principales: Satya Sai, Minnikanti Venkata, Revati, G. Devi, Ramya, R., Swaroop, Ann Mary, Maheswari, Eswaran, Kumar, Mudigubba Manoj
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31040587
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_121_18
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author Satya Sai, Minnikanti Venkata
Revati, G. Devi
Ramya, R.
Swaroop, Ann Mary
Maheswari, Eswaran
Kumar, Mudigubba Manoj
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Revati, G. Devi
Ramya, R.
Swaroop, Ann Mary
Maheswari, Eswaran
Kumar, Mudigubba Manoj
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description BACKGROUND: Farmers are extensively using pesticides for pest control in agriculture. Their precarious handling practices may lead to higher exposure resulting in adverse health effects. AIM: Current study was aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding pesticide usage and its toxic effects by farmers. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Cross sectional, STUDY SETTING: Rural village in south Karnataka. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sample size: 171 farmers, Data collection: face to face standardized validated questionnaire. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Chi-square test. RESULTS: A total of 118 males and 53 females participated in this study with median age of 40 years. About 61% of the farmers knew the harmful effects of pesticides. However, 22% of them were mixing the pesticides using their bare hands and 26% were not wearing any protective clothing during spraying pesticides. Around 67% were carelessly disposing the leftover pesticides in the open fields. Skin problems and neurological system disturbances were the most common pesticide related health symptoms. Equipment washing practices (P < 0.05) and protective clothing (P < 0.03) were significant predictors of health related problems. Significant associations were found between the occurrence of headache and equipment washing practices (P < 0.03), storage of pesticide remains (P < 0.02) and protective clothing (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: These findings showed that knowledge level is adequate among farmers but this did not reflect in their practice. There is a need for continuous pesticide safety education along with training to the farmers regarding use of personal protective devices, personal hygiene and sanitation practices during and after application of pesticides.
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spelling pubmed-64779482019-04-30 Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India Satya Sai, Minnikanti Venkata Revati, G. Devi Ramya, R. Swaroop, Ann Mary Maheswari, Eswaran Kumar, Mudigubba Manoj Indian J Occup Environ Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Farmers are extensively using pesticides for pest control in agriculture. Their precarious handling practices may lead to higher exposure resulting in adverse health effects. AIM: Current study was aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding pesticide usage and its toxic effects by farmers. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Cross sectional, STUDY SETTING: Rural village in south Karnataka. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sample size: 171 farmers, Data collection: face to face standardized validated questionnaire. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Chi-square test. RESULTS: A total of 118 males and 53 females participated in this study with median age of 40 years. About 61% of the farmers knew the harmful effects of pesticides. However, 22% of them were mixing the pesticides using their bare hands and 26% were not wearing any protective clothing during spraying pesticides. Around 67% were carelessly disposing the leftover pesticides in the open fields. Skin problems and neurological system disturbances were the most common pesticide related health symptoms. Equipment washing practices (P < 0.05) and protective clothing (P < 0.03) were significant predictors of health related problems. Significant associations were found between the occurrence of headache and equipment washing practices (P < 0.03), storage of pesticide remains (P < 0.02) and protective clothing (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: These findings showed that knowledge level is adequate among farmers but this did not reflect in their practice. There is a need for continuous pesticide safety education along with training to the farmers regarding use of personal protective devices, personal hygiene and sanitation practices during and after application of pesticides. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6477948/ /pubmed/31040587 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_121_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ramya, R.
Swaroop, Ann Mary
Maheswari, Eswaran
Kumar, Mudigubba Manoj
Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title_full Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title_fullStr Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title_short Knowledge and Perception of Farmers Regarding Pesticide Usage in a Rural Farming Village, Southern India
title_sort knowledge and perception of farmers regarding pesticide usage in a rural farming village, southern india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31040587
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_121_18
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