Assessment on farmers’ knowledge, attitude and practice of safety vegetable production in Vu Phuc commune, Thai Binh city
- Author:
Nguyen Quoc Tien
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Safe vegetable
- MeSH:
Vegetables;
Safety;
Knowledge;
Attitude
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2005;309(4):1-5
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Research on farmers’ knowledge, attitude and practice of safety vegetable production process showed that: the incident of farmers had knowledge of safety vegetable production was 50.98%, in which 37.19% was aware of IPM, 57.10% was aware of safety vegetable criterion. 83.74% of the farmer used dried and powdered night soil, 100% used nitrogen fertilizer and 2.95% applied fertilizer-water for vegetables. The incident of farmers using covered fertilizer was rather high (97.06%). However, the time for covering the fertilizer from 3 to 6 months was 95.17% in Van Xuan, and 63.14% in Vu Phuc. 85.0% of the farmers used dried and powdered night soil for leaf-eating vegetables, 61.17% used this kind of fertilizer for tuber-eating vegetables. The amount of nitrogen fertilizer was at normal level < 100 kg/ha/crop. Many poisonous chemicals were forbidden such as Moniter, Wofatox are still being used by Vu Phuc farmers. The time isolating the chemical was 10 days in Van Xuan (100%), in Vu Phuc (58.86%)
