production was also an important reason for the banning or unavailability
of pesticides, lower than the proportion in S2 (p b 0.01).
The commonly applied pesticides in the study area are listed in
Table 6, based on the information and permission of the retailers. Insecticides
were used more frequently than fungicides and herbicides at a
ratio of 2:1:1. Some organophosphorous pesticides had already been
banned, but some such as parathion and phoxim were still available in
the stores.
3.5. Farmer and retailer awareness of the dangers of pesticides to human
health and the environment
The investigation of the awareness of the dangers of pesticide use to
human health and the environment provided interesting results in
these two selected regions (Table 7). Over half of the interviewees
declared they knew that pesticides left residues. In S2, 92.1% of the
interviewed people believed that pesticides were harmful to human
health, but 46.9% of the people in S1 held the opposite attitude on th