Factors Influencing to Pesticide Application Behaviors of Sugarcane Farmers at Nabokum Sub-District, Muang District, Kamphaeng Phet Province
Keywords:
sugarcane farmers, pesticide application behaviors and Kamphaeng Phet ProvinceAbstract
This predictive research aimed to study various factors, including personal factors, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing and health literacy factors which influenced pesticide application behaviors of sugarcane farmers from Nabokhum Sub-district, Mueang District, and Kamphaeng Phet Province. The sample group consisted of 261 sugarcane farmers at Nabokhum Sub-district, Mueang District, Kamphaeng Phet Province. They were selected as samples using multi- stage random sampling. Data collection tools used and analyzed were questionnaires, data analysis using frequency, percentage, mean, minimum, maximum, standard deviation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the research were as follows: (1) one factor influencing pesticide application behaviors of sugarcane farmers at Nabokham Sub-district, Mueang District, Kamphaeng Phet Province, with statistical significance at level 0.05, was health literacy (P-value<.001), which could predict 30.3%. (2) farmers had a high level of pesticide application behaviors. (X=119.1, SD=12.99). There should be a policy or an intervention program to promote health literacy of sugarcane farmers for improving their behavior when applying pesticides. This can be used as basic information for pesticide poisoning surveillance for farmers who have high levels of pesticide application behavior
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