พฤติกรรมการฉีดพ่นสารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชของเกษตรกรผู้ปลูกข้าว ตำบลนราภิรมย์ อำเภอบางเลน จังหวัดนครปฐม

Abstract

This survey research aimed to study the behavior of pesticides spraying of rice farmers in Naraphirom Subdistrict  Banglen District Nakhon Pathom Province. The samples were 254 rice farmers from stratified sampling. The data were collected by questionnaires. Data analysis used descriptive statistics; frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results revealed that rice farmers were male, aged between 50-59 years, marital, primary school graduated, average income were 5,000-10,000 Baht per month, having 1-4 members in family, having 1-20 Rai of rice planting, most of them renting space for agriculture. Pesticides had been used for more than 10 years. The farmer purchased pesticides for 5,000-10,000 Baht per month per time. Additionally, the farmer used pesticides for eliminating insects. The rice farmer exposed pesticides 3-4 days a week. Most of them used to be trained on the safety of pesticide use and never had any illnesses from using pesticides. Before spraying pesticides, farmers had no behavior using mouth-blown nozzles when spraying (82.7%). The farmers did not eat and drink water while they were spraying (78.5%). Most of them cleaned and changed clothes every time, after spraying (84.3%). In addition, the behavior of using pesticides among farmers after spraying were greatest observed at the excellent level (X=4.55, S.D.=0.82), followed by pesticide using behaviors during spraying (X=4.24, S.D.=1.03), and pesticide using behaviors before spraying (X=4.06, S.D.=1.15).