Most farmers reported that they had felt some ill effects of
pesticide application such as headache, dizziness, and vomiting
that normally occur during or after spraying. Despite these,
people treat pesticides as something useful and ordinary in that
they are using it in their everyday normal dealings, with less
safety precautions including storage and disposal, concurring to
earlier findings.21 Pesticide mistaken for flour caused the food
poisoning of more than 100 children resulting to 27 deaths last 9
March 2005 in Bohol, Philippines, a case of unsafe pesticide
storage.36 Whatever the cost of people’s health, pesticides may
still be viewed as harmless when perceived as medicines that heal
crop diseases in the same way that medicine heals people