Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
V. BALKAN AGRICULTURE CONGRESS, Çanakkale, Türkiye, 20 - 23 Eylül 2023, ss.119
There is an increase in pest and the use of pesticide are
increasing. Reducing the negative effects of pesticides is very important. The
aim of this work is to investigate consciousness level of farmers to
toxicological risk of pesticides in Çanakkale. The sample size was
calculated by “Simple Random Sampling Based on Ratio Means” method. The survey
was performed with 270 farmers. 25.55% of the farmers had 31-40 years of farming
experience, 47.78% were primary school graduates and 35.55% were 55-65 years
old. The farmers knowledge level was calculated by applying a
four-point Likert Scale. The knowledge level was low, moderate high, and
very high with the percentage of 1.85%, 25.18%, 66.29% and
6.67%, respectively. The Chi-Square test was used to investigate the
relationship of farmer's knowledge level with education, age, farming
experience, land size, and farming type. Only education was significant and
coefficient contingency was 0.467. As education level increased, the knowledge
level increased. With this result, the importance of the role of education, has
once again emerged. 78.89% of the farmers change their clothes after spraying,
46.67% take cared information on the pesticide labels, 45.18% use protective
equipment during spraying, 69.63% of the farmers cared about the PHI, 15,92%
have knowledge about MRLs, 41.85% disposed remaining pesticide solutions to the
edge of agricultural fields. 40.74% and 6.3% disposed empty pesticide bottles
to garbage, and environment, respectively. Present findings revealed one
more time the significance of public and private sector organizations in
raising awareness among producers about pesticides.