Risk assessment of Farmers Using Pesticides in Nongplasawai Sub-District, Banthong District, Lamphun Province

Abstract

Pesticide has harmful to the health of both humans and animals, but still found that farmers still use a lot of pesticides and a wide area. Farmers use it incorrectly, resulting in the accumulation of chemicals until the body and show various symptoms. The objective was to study the knowledge, attitude and practice and to find the relationship in using pesticides of farmers, to assess the risk of pesticide use of farmers, and to find the relationship in using pesticides with risk in using pesticides of farmers in Nongplasawa Sub-district, Banthong District, Lamphun Province. Researcher collected data with questionnaires. The results showed that most of the samples were mixed pesticides and insecticide by themselves (58.50 %), the most of samples do not experience abnormal symptoms immediately after using pesticides (68.00 %). In the past six months, never received information and knowledge to prevent the dangers of using pesticides (69.10 %) and in the past one year, never participated in training on the use of pesticides (63.40 %). The samples had knowledge about pesticide use at a high level ( = 7.87), attitude had moderate level ( = 2.26+0.19), practice had low level ( = 1.58+0.24), the knowledge, attitude and practice in using pesticides without significant correlation (P-value>0.05). Risk assessment for the prevention of pesticide use found that most of the risks has low (42.30%). The relationship of the practice in the prevention of pesticide use and the level of risk of using pesticides of the samples found that there was a statistically significant correlation (P-value<0.01). Therefore, to reduce the risk of using pesticides Should promote the training for farmers to behave correctly, including raising awareness on prevention and further promoting the use of organic agriculture.