Ecological illiteracy can deepen farmers’ pesticide dependency
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Pesticide exposures among Hmong farmers in Thailand.
Highland Hmong farmers in Thailand have abandoned shifting cultivation of subsistence crops and turned to chemical-intensive cultivation of non-narcotic permanent field cash crops. Three highland communities and Hmong in urban Chiang Mai were studied. Most rural study participants applied chemicals, primarily to control insects, weeds, and fungus, by backpack and machine sprays and by hand. Hmo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab34c9