The Use of Pesticides Chemicals in Fruits and Paddy Fields Sananrak Sub-District, Thanyaburi District, Pathumthani Province, Thailand

The study intended to analyze and explore the utilization of pesticides and chemicals through qualitative analysis in agricultural profession of Sananrak Sub-District, Thanyaburi District, Pathumthani Province. Local agriculturists' are subjected to study their usage of pesticide chemicals, procedures and behaviors of Sananrak Sub-District by using qualitative method. A total of 18 farmers were selected to study their farming activities, lesson learnt brainstorming, observation and in-depth interviews.From results of the study it was found that majority of the farmers are males, aged between 40-49 and are graduated from primary education with average family income of more than 10,000 Baht per month. Thus, local farming community prefer to grow tangerines, rice, limes, guavas and papayas respectively. However, most of the farmers has 6-10 years of farming experience in the study area. It was found that abamectin is the most used insecticide amongst the other insecticides, which apply for tangerines, limes, guavas and paddy fields. On the other hand, they will use methamidophos insecticides in papayas field. And for herbicides, they will mostly use glyphosate and paraquat chemicals. (Metro Zone, Gramoxone).Behavior in using chemical, in general agriculturists choose to use chemicals by means of spray by using spray towing machine. Researchers found that when agriculturists apply for insecticides, they will use the spray type of pesticides and if some field areas are furrows, they will use tug boats in spraying insecticides. However, the agricultural farmers themselves choosing their chemical pesticides. This attitudes of farming community in the study area may leads local Thai-people to expose pesticide residues via food chain and consumption of local foods. Hence government of Thailand should promote the use of Bio- pesticides and fertilizers and subsidize the cost of Bio-pesticides to encourage the marginalized agricultural farmers