• Shantaveer
• Anoop singh

Background: Pesticides are of vital importance in the pest control and to fight against plant diseases, for production and storage of food, they are being widely used for pest control in agriculture, gardening, homes and soil treatment and also play a substantial role in maintaining high productivity of crops. Several cases of chronic toxicity or death have been reported and proven among farm workers exposed to different types of pesticides. In this regard, imparting the best practices for farmers helps them from such hazardous effects of pesticides. Objectives: To identify the different Organophosphorous Compounds used by the farmers; to determine the safe handling and precautionary measures taken by the farmers against Organophosphorous Compounds. Materials and methods: This was a prospective observational study, carried out for a period of eight months after getting the approval from Institutional Ethics Committee. All the demographics, data related to attitude and safe-handling of Organophosphorous compounds were collected in suitable data collection form. Sampling method was considered as per our convenience of our study. Results: Descriptive statistics were employed i.e. measure of central tendency. 1727 farmers were participated in our study of which only 14.64% were literate. Participants with primary occupation of farming were 90.74%. 62.18% farmers said they will follow information provided through leaflets. In OP poisoning emergencies 40.70% farmers reported they consult doctor, 40.56% rely on self-medication and 19.76% they ignore the symptoms. Conclusion: The study findings revealed that farmers had poor practices in few aspects. It is therefore recommended that community pharmacist’s intervention should be enhanced through the series of technical training programs using participatory approaches, so that farmers accumulate positive attitude which will drive them to adopt good agriculture practice for safe pesticide usage.

pesticides, farmers, agriculture, toxicity.

"PERCEPTIONS OF FARMERS TOWARDS ORGANOPHOSPHOROUS COMPOUNDS – AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.795-799, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002520.pdf

"PERCEPTIONS OF FARMERS TOWARDS ORGANOPHOSPHOROUS COMPOUNDS – AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp795-799, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002520.pdf