A study on farmers’ knowledge, perception and intensity of approved pesticide use practices/patterns in tomato and cabbage in Himachal Pradesh Singh Gagandeep, Dubey Jatiender Kumar*, Patyal Surender Kumar Department of Entomology, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173230, HP, India *Email for correspondence: jkdubey14@gmail.com
Online published on 25 July, 2018. Abstract The present study was carried out at three different locations of Himachal Pradesh during the year 2015–16 in order to find out the farmers’ knowledge, perception and intensity of approved pesticide use practices/patterns in tomato and cabbage. It was revealed that no farmer was familiar with Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) guidelines about the use of labeled and non-labeled pesticide application and majority of the farmers (57.33%) were mainly dependent on the advice of pesticide dealers. Most commonly used pesticides applied by the farmers on tomato and cabbage were malathion, chlorpyrifos, cypermethrin, carbendazim and mancozeb. It was also observed during the survey that most of the farmers stored the pesticide bottles (81.33%) at safe places in their houses and the remaining (18.67%) placed the bottles in unsafe areas without any safety measures. CIBRC recommendations are yet to percolate down through various agencies to arrive at the farmers’ level by educating them at various forums Top Keywords CIBRC, malathion, chlorpyrifos, cypermethrin, carbendazim, mancozeb. Top |