Awareness of farmers towards effect of pesticides on human health

Farmers spray pesticides indiscriminately, which are hazardous to their health. Pesticides being used in agricultural tracts are released into the environment and come into human contact directly or indirectly. The present investigation aimed to provide necessary information on level of awareness that the cotton farmers possess on effect of pesticides. The present study was conducted with specific objective namely to study the awareness of farmers towards effect of pesticides on human health. Nanded district was selected purposively for the study as it has larger area under cotton, from that district three tahsils namely Mudhked, Himayathnagar, Kinwat were selected purposively, four villages from each tahsils were selected and ten respondents from each village were selected for the study comprising of 120 respondents for the study. The study revealed that majority of the farmers had medium level of awareness (67.5%) followed by high level (20.00%) and low level (12.50%).