Pesticide use in chili production was markedly lower than in
tomato production, but the great majority of farmers mixed various
pesticides in single sprays. Of the Vietnamese chili farmers who
encountered virus-like disease symptoms, 74% used fungicides,
which indicates a need for training. In Tamil Nadu, this was 46%,
while only a few Thai farmers used fungicides against virus disease
symptoms. Virtually no farmers in any of the three countries
indicated that they had deliberately selected virus-resistant chili
varieties. Similar to the case of tomato, Thai chili farmers protected
themselves better while spraying pesticides than did chili farmers
in Vietnam or Tamil Nadu.
Only 31% of the respondents reported applying synthetic pesticides
to their mungbean crop in Tamil Nadu, supporting the
observation that mungbean is a subsistence crop there. Pesticide
use in mungbean in Vietnam was reported as much greater, but
very little (3%) of it was used against plant viruses.