Are you using the right farm chemical?
“Some of the abuse is due to ignorance while the other is deliberate by farmers,” explains Dr. Aggrey Atuhaire, coordinator for Pesticide Health and Environment Project, under the Uganda National Association of Community and Occupational Health (UNACOH). Some of the ignorance includes farmers not knowing which farm chemical to apply under specific circumstances.
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Are you using the right farm chemical?
By NewVision Reporter
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By Joshua Kato
Although it is inevitable that farmers use chemicals, there is a gross abuse of farm chemicals, experts have said. Misuse of farm chemicals has various consequences among which