Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Awareness of vegetable growers towards safe application of pesticides
Author(s): SD Amle, KT Lahariya, RS Raut and PK Wakle
Abstract: The study was conducted in Akola district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state with the objective to study the awareness of vegetable growers towards safe application of pesticides. Based on more area under vegetable cultivation, the Patur tahsil from Akola district was selected purposively. Ten villages from Patur were selected randomly and ten vegetable growers from each selected village were interviewed for collection of data. Thus total 100 respondents were considered as sample for the study. The exploratory research design was used for present study. The findings revealed that more than half of the respondents (67.00%) had medium level of awareness. The coefficient of correlation between selected characteristics revealed that, the characteristics extension contact showed positive and highly significant correlation with awareness of the respondents at 0.01 level of probability. The characteristics viz. training received, attitude towards use of pesticides, land holding, experience of growing vegetable crops, sources of information, irrigation facility, and high level of education were positively correlated with awareness at 0.05 level of probability about awareness of the vegetable growers towards safe application of pesticides.
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SD Amle, KT Lahariya, RS Raut, PK Wakle. Awareness of vegetable growers towards safe application of pesticides. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):1817-1820.
