"In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in … Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Blood cholinesterase tests suggest that the incidence of poisoning from exposure to organophosphates … and carbamates is quite high in Vietnam. Using the medical test results as benchmarks, the authors find that farmers' self …

"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial … understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To … this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide traders was conducted with questions on the pesticides in stock …

pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly admitting to using little or no protective measures while applying … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as …