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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Attitudes and practices of farmers with regard to pesticide use in NorthWest Ethiopia

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Article: 1791462 | Received 24 Feb 2020, Accepted 25 Jun 2020, Published online: 26 Jul 2020

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Figure 1. Map of Lake Tana and surrounding study area (Tegegne et al., Citation2017).

Figure 1. Map of Lake Tana and surrounding study area (Tegegne et al., Citation2017).

Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of key informants around Lake Tana (n = 423)

Table 2. Summary of the assessments of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides) used in farms, around Lake Tana (n = 423)

Table 3. Farmers’ knowledge, attitude and understanding about pesticide (n = 423)

Table 4. Farmers’ practices on use, storage and disposal of pesticides around Lake Tana (n = 423)

Table 5. Bivariate and multivariate analyses of factors associated with poor attitude and practice of pesticide use among farmers, around Lake Tana