• Mr. Masood Ahmad Sheikh
• Mrs. Sneha Vijay Gavande
• Mrs. Swapna Vijay Gavande
• Mrs. Farida Akhter

As the population is increasing in a high pace which generates pressure on whole world including consumption and production. The demand of occupying land is increased day by day which lessens the land for farms and yielding. Nowadays farmers plays vital role in producing the food material in order to prevent the people from hunger and starvation. This implies that the farm workers are supposed to use high quality of pesticides in order to provide better agriculture based food items and other material. But meanwhile the use of pesticides in agriculture for crop protection and pest control has been associated with environmental contamination and human health problems. Prolonged pesticide exposure may lead to liver malfunction, immune malfunction, cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic impairment, and reproductive effects yielded inconclusive results. A descriptive study design was used to assess the practices and health related toxic symptoms of pesticide use among farm workers at selected villages for which 100 subjects were selected by convenience sampling technique. After data collection the tool was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using chi-square and standard scale. The result revealed that 13%, 68%, 19% of farm workers had good, average and poor practices respectively with an average mean and SD of 22.85±5.83. The results showed that 65% skin rash, 53% itching, 27% burning sensation. 7% numbness of hands was having health related toxic symptoms. The results also revealed that 27% sneezing, 13% running nose, 11% cough, 7% difficulty in breathing and 6% irritation of throat were having respiratory symptoms. The findings also revealed that 37% sweating, 14% headache, 13% vomiting, 6% excessive salivation , 5% abdominal pain, 15% Lacrimation, 13% eye irritation, 11% burning sensation, 9% blurred vision and 5% difficulty in seeing , 9% anxiety and 7% irritability were having systemic symptoms. The study concluded that there was statistically significant association between practices on use of pesticides and health related toxic symptoms among farm workers.

Assess, Pesticides, Farm Workers, Toxic Symptom

" DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PRACTICES AND HEALTH RELATED TOXIC SYMPTOMS OF PESTICIDES USE AMONG FARM WORKERS AT SELECTED VILLAGES OF BUDGAM KASHMIR.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.d353-d359, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202349.pdf

" DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PRACTICES AND HEALTH RELATED TOXIC SYMPTOMS OF PESTICIDES USE AMONG FARM WORKERS AT SELECTED VILLAGES OF BUDGAM KASHMIR.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppd353-d359, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202349.pdf