A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PESTICIDES USAGE AND BIOSAFETY AMONG THE FARMERS IN SELECTED RURAL AREAS OF THE CITY IN VIEW TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATION BOOKLET.

Author Name: 1. Ms. Shraddha Tamshettiwar

Volume/Issue: 05/01

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2024-33491691/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Asharam College of Nursing, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharastra, India.

ABSTRACT

Agriculture is an important economic sector in India. Over 58 per cent of the rural households depend on agriculture as their principal means of livelihood. According to World Health Organization, 50,000–1,00,000 people per year around the India suffer from health effects due to pesticide usage. Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding pesticide usage and biosafety among farmers and to find the association between knowledge on the safe usage of pesticide and biosafety among farmers in relation to demographic variables. Materials and Methods: 100 farmers participated in this study. Quantitative research approach with descriptive research design was used. Non-Probability Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample. The data were collected from selected rural area, using socio demographic data sheet and self-administered Questionnaire. Results: 100 farmers participated in this study with that 31% of them were in the age group of 51-60+ years, 53% of farmers were males, 48% of farmers were educated up to primary standard, 51% of them were working up to 5-10 hours, 50% of farmers were having monthly family income of less than 100000, 32% of farmers have one member working in their farm, 51% of them were from joint families, 81% of farmers were married and 38% of farmers had duration of farming less than 5 years. The level of knowledge scores out of total participant 25% of farmers had average level of knowledge score, 70% had good and 5% of farmers had very good level of knowledge score. Mean knowledge score was 12.22±2.20. Conclusion: To assess the knowledge regarding pesticide usage and biosafety among farmers was found to be effective in improving the knowledge of subjects. There was no significant association between knowledge score with other demographic characteristic like education, type of family, hours working in farm and members involved in farming. There was significant association between knowledge score with other demographic characteristic like age, gender and duration of farming.

Key words: Assess, Knowledge, Pesticides Usage, Biosafety, Farmer, Rural Area.