TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dasgupta,Susmita
AU  - Meisner,Craig jtauthor
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use: evidence from Bangladesh 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D. C
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Health effects of
KW  - Bangladesh
N1  - Also available online; "In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice),potato, ban, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides.  With only 4 percent of farmers formally trained in 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 probity framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as endogenous dummy variables.  Health effects (the first equation)were found to be strictly a function of the amount of pesticides used in production, while misperception of pesticide risk (the second equation)was determined by health impairments from pesticides and the toxicity of chemi; Includes bibliographical references; Open access
ER  -