Knowledge, attitude and chemical insecticide use behavior of corn farmers in Sriratana district, Sisaket province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study the knowledge, attitude and behavior of the safe use of pesticide in corn farmers and relationship between personal factors and knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in using pesticides. The samples were to 320 people of corn farmers in Sriratana district, Sisaket Province. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The results found that the farmers had high knowledge levels, 92 percent. The most of the attitudes had high levels, 97.00 percent. And the most of the behavior had high levels, 98.00 percent. The study of the relationship of personal factors with knowledge, attitude and behaviors of used pesticide by using the fisher’s exact test, the results found that the personal factors of age, gender, education level, annual income and corn growing experience was related to knowledge, attitude and behavior of all chemical use in agriculture (p<0.01) .