Over 40% of the farmers in these two regions claimed that they seldom
store pesticides at home but buy them when needed. In S1, 31.4%
of the farmers admitted that they haphazardly stored pesticides, and
only 22.9% of the farmers declared storing pesticides in specific storerooms.
This latter proportion was similar to that in S2. Nearly half of
the farmers in S1 admitted that they trusted their own experience of application
rather than following the specifications on the labels of pesticide
containers. The frequencies were significantly different in S2:
47.3% of the farmers obeyed the suggestions of the retailer, 30.8%
followed the specifications and only 22.9% of farmers use pesticides by
their own experience (p b 0.05).