Community participation in development of models for reducing pesticide contact of agriculturist group case study of tobacco grower group of nayor village, nangam sub-district, raenunakhon district, nakhonphanom province
Background and Objective : The volume of pesticide
using in the tobacco agriculturists are increasing and
the impact from using pesticides are so much on the
health of farmers, the environment, economic and
society. The purpose of this research was to develop
the models for reducing pesticide contact of
agriculturists group growing tobacco at Nayor village
tobacco growers group, Nangam sub-district,
RaenuNakhon district, NakhonPhanom province..
Methods: This participation action research used the
sample group collected by Purposive Sampling. There
are 4 steps of procedure; 1) Community situation
study, 2) Brainstorming and thought reflection, 3)
Implementation of the models and 4)Performance
evaluation. Data collection tools consisted of In-depth
interview questions, Group discussion questions,
Participatory and non-participatory observation items,
Brainstorming and reflective thinking and Knowledge
and behavior questionnaire of using chemical
pesticide. Data was analyzed by content analysis and
frequency percentage.
Results: Most of the agriculturists were women, every
one used pesticides 3-4 times a year, they were commitment with private tobacco company and,
most of them are knowledgeable about chemicals at
the high level. Behavior about using pesticides in
before used, currently used and after used were at
the high level. The model had 4 steps guideline to
reducing pesticides contact of tobacco planting which
were; 1) Seedling. 2) Tobacco care 3) Tobacco leaf
harvesting and 4) Tobacco leaf packing. The results
after implementation, it was found that most of the
agriculturists followed the guidelines .However, The
process is still tricky to implement and unsure of the
effectiveness of the new guideline.
Conclusion: agriculturists are perceive of the impact
from pesticide exposure and importance to avoid
pesticides exposure. but are not confident about the
effectiveness of this guideline