Health Risk of Conventional Farmers: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate,Occupational health risk of farmers exposed to agrochemicals and pesticides in their agricultural activities of Tamil Nadu, India.
Method and Methodology: Descriptive and empirical analysis was done to justify the objectives. Purposive non random sampling method was used to find the sample elements and the study area. Primary data was collected June to July 2024. Sample size was 128 based on the usages of agrochemicals and pesticide during their agricultural activities. Linear Probability model and Chi Square test was used.
Findings: From the field survey, it’s clearly understood that the farmers are using pesticides and agrochemicals and aware about its existing health risk. Hundred percent of respondents pointed out that a pesticide spray is done just before harvesting in case of Grapes for to maintain its yield, colour and quality. There was an inverse relationship of adopting self-preventive measures against the number of times / risk exposures from agrochemicals and pesticides. One unit of increase in age increases the unfavourable opinion on the preference for conventional farming by 0.01475 units. The positive coefficient of 0.7832 arrived for the variable on the number of members in the family indicates that every one unit of member increase in the number of members in the family increases the preference for farming of traditional by 0.7832 units. Similarly, in the case of the variable on the number of earning members, the negative slope coefficient of -0.4541 implies that every one unit of increase in the number of earning members in the family reduces the preference farming activity. It indicates that better healthy peasants in the study area. The tangible self-health issues are cared immediately by both Indian medicines and Allopathic Medicines.
Conclusion: Certainly Farmers in the study area were in the aura of economic returns on investment, who thought of farming as an economic activity. One side Simply profit motivators and other side of the coin caring their health and others. To conclude that,Present and future generation must have (Bio-empathy) the ability to see things from nature’s point view; to understand, respect, and learn from its pattern for their own health status and their soil’s health status.