Prevalence of Pesticide Use and Occupational Exposure Among Small-Scale Farmers in Western Ethiopia.

27 , 30 This showed that there is an increasing trend in the use of chemical pesticides among small-scale farmers. 31 Thus, SSFs whose age was greater than 40 years were 7.87 times more likely to be exposed to skin irritation than those whose age was less than 20 years (AOR = 7.87; 95% CI: 1.75-35.45) and skin contact (AOR = 0.37; 95% CI: 0.15-0.91) ( Table 8 ).

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