Factors affecting farmers’ safety behavior in the use of chemical pesticides: the role of technical efficiency

Naghavi, Somayeh; Ahmadyousefi, Mehdi; Damalas, Christos A.; Mohammadi, Mehdi

doi:10.1080/09670874.2022.2094492

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“…Research on farmers' behavior in the use of pesticides has focused on the use of PPE, indicating that PPE use is an effective strategy for preventing or reducing pesticide‐related health problems 17–21 . However, other research has noted that despite good knowledge of the adverse impacts of pesticides, most farmers do not consider safety measures that can minimize the risk of poisoning 22–24 . Socio‐demographic factors (such as age, farm experience, training, and education status) influence behaviors in pesticide use 25–27 .…”

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“…[17][18][19][20][21] However, other research has noted that despite good knowledge of the adverse impacts of pesticides, most farmers do not consider safety measures that can minimize the risk of poisoning. [22][23][24] Sociodemographic factors (such as age, farm experience, training, and education status) influence behaviors in pesticide use. [25][26][27] Moreover, farmers' knowledge about pesticides, 28,29 the perceived risk of pesticide use, 30 and health problems from pesticide exposure 22 can also influence behaviors.…”

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Safety behavior in pesticide use among farmers of northern Greece: the role of information sources

Tsakiris,

Damalas,

Koutroubas

2023

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUNDFarmers' compliance with common safety practices in pesticide use (i.e., keeping records of pesticide applications, reading the information of pesticide labels, and taking protective measures during pesticide handling) and the use of information sources about pesticides were studied in a simple random sample of farmers in Evros Province, northern Greece.RESULTSAccording to the three common safety practices considered in the study, most farmers (56.9%) complied with safety practices. Nevertheless, a noticeable proportion of the farmers never kept records of pesticide applications (33.9%), never read the information of pesticide labels (20.2%), and never took protective measures during pesticide handling (24.8%). Farmers reported using up to six different sources of information about pesticides, but the majority (51.4%) reported using up to one source and almost one‐third (33.9%) relied on own sources. The most common information source about pesticides was the staff of the agricultural supply stores, used by 88.1% of the farmers. Safety behavior was positively correlated with total sources of information (P < 0.01) and information by the agricultural supply stores (P < 0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that safety behavior was reduced in females, whereas it was increased in farmers with high education, high number of plots, and high level of information sources.CONCLUSIONDespite good levels of safety behavior by most farmers, keeping records of sprayings should be improved. Using multiple information sources about pesticides is crucial to improve safety behavior of farmers. © 2023 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

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Safety behavior in pesticide use among farmers of northern Greece: the role of information sources

Tsakiris,

Damalas,

Koutroubas

2023

Pest Management Science

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Factors affecting safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists in northeastern Thailand

Suphim,

Songthap

2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Pesticide poisoning is a major public health problem in Thailand and is the result of intensive inappropriate and unsafe use of pesticides. This analytical cross-sectional study aimed to determine the factors affecting safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists in northeastern Thailand. Methods The study sample included 427 farm plant agriculturists in Loei Province, northeastern Thailand. Individuals were randomly selected by a multistage random sampling technique. The following data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire consisting of 8 parts: (1) sociodemographic characteristics, (2) knowledge about pesticide use, (3) perceived severity of impact from pesticide use among farm plant agriculturists, (4) perceived susceptibility to pesticide use, (5) perceived self-efficacy in the modification of safe pesticide-use behaviors, (6) perceived outcome of the modification of safe pesticide-use behaviors, (7) social support, and (8) safe pesticide-use behaviors. Frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, and multiple regression analyses were employed for data analysis. Results The majority of participants (79.4%) had high scores for safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists (scores of 112–150). Factors that significantly affected safe pesticide-use behaviors included knowledge about pesticide use (β = 0.282), social support (β = 0.217), reading information from pesticide labels before pesticide use (β = 0.207), perceived self-efficacy (β = 0.186), female sex (β = -0.140), rice farmer status (β = 0.129), corn farmer status (β = 0.127), perceived susceptibility (β = 0.126), having received information from the internet (β = -0.124), and perceived severity (β = -0.098). Together, these 10 factors were found to explain 32.5% of the safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists. Conclusions Our findings indicate that there is a need to increase the number of promotional activities related to the safe use of pesticides through social support and training, with the aim of increasing the overall level of knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, and modification of the perceived impact severity of pesticide use. Thus, relevant agencies should promote and support the safe use of pesticides by farm plant agriculturists. Summary This study revealed that the factors affecting safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists included knowledge about pesticide use, social support, reading pesticide container labels, perceived self-efficacy in the modification of pesticide-use behaviors, sex, rice farmer status, corn farmer status, perceived susceptibility to pesticide use, having received information from the internet, and perceived severity of impact from pesticide use.

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Factors affecting farmers’ safety behavior in the use of chemical pesticides: the role of technical efficiency

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Safety behavior in pesticide use among farmers of northern Greece: the role of information sources

Safety behavior in pesticide use among farmers of northern Greece: the role of information sources

Factors affecting safe pesticide-use behaviors among farm plant agriculturists in northeastern Thailand

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