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Requirements to provide high and stable yields and highquality agricultural products at reasonable prices are hard to meet without any use of pesticides. However, in addition to significant positive effect their application often has adverse effects on human health and environment. This study aims to uncover crop farmers’ behaviour regarding pesticide use in Serbia’s region of Vojvodina. The research was conducted based on farmers’ self-assessment regarding the application of pesticides. The results show that farmers have a serious and responsible approach concerning certain aspects of pesticide use. They generally follow recommendations, particularly concerning the preharvest interval, as well as the washing and maintenance of equipment. However, they often neglect other aspects, especially those related to their own safety protection. The study concludes that the mechanisms of appropriate sharing of information and farmers’ education should be addressed by decision-makers and that the advisory service should play a strong role in this process.

Environmental attitudes are one of the determinants of farmers? ecologically responsible behaviour. However, it is not easy to determine factors which influence individuals? environmental attitudes. The literature suggests the existence of a number of influencing factors. In this paper, the environmental attitudes of the farmers? in Vojvodina have been tested in relation to environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, which are important elements of environmental awareness. As far as the authors know, these variables have not yet been linked to the concept of the new ecological paradigm (NEP), and this paper provides new insight into the relations between the NEP scale and the selected elements of environmental awareness. A multiple regression was conducted to see if environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature predicted the environmental attitudes. The results show that both variables explain 9.6% variance in NEP values. The results show that the farmers? environmental knowledge and their connectedness to nature are statistically significant, but in a small percentage explain the achieved values on the NEP scale. ?herefore, one can say that the tested variables are predictors of environmental attitudes, but they are also influenced by other factors which need to be investigated in the future researches.