Health Risk Estimate for Pesticide-Users Vegetable 🍅 Farmers 👨🌾 Cameroon 🇨🇲
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Health Risk Estimate for Pesticide-Users Vegetable 🍅 Farmers 👨🌾 Cameroon 🇨🇲
✅ Developing 👨💻️ countries, Cameroon 🇨🇲 inclusive rely on pesticides for agricultural production. High temperatures coupled 👩❤️💋👨 with high humidity of tropics causes pest and ➕ disease 🦟 problems to increase. The use of pesticides in the tropics has been highly pronounced due to standards for cosmetic quality in export markets for fresh fruits 🍇 and ➕ vegetables. Pesticides were subsidized by 100 💯% in the 8️⃣0️⃣s and ➕ 9️⃣0️⃣s causing farmers 👨🌾 to depend on chemical pesticides for agricultural production. Small 📐🦐 scale ⚖️ farmers 👨🌾 are often left ⬅️ on their own; rely on neighbouring cities and ➕ local dealers for pesticides and ➕ farm inputs 🔣, lack the necessary training 🚆 to update their knowledge. Common to 🔎 find 👨🌾 farmers spraying without body 👃 covering 📔, smoking 🚬, eating 🍽️ and ➕ drinking 🚰 during spraying, using fake, banned, adulterated, expired pesticides, using pesticides meant for cocoa on vegetables, and ➕ sometimes the equipment they use leak. Although the multinational companies use technological inputs 🔣, the workers 👨🏭️ are still exposed to pesticides during mixing and ➕ also when airplanes ✈️ are used to spray the fields 🏑 during working ⚙️ hours. Common illnesses 🤒 include body 👃 itches, cough, stomach ulcer, eye 👁️ problems, and ➕ respiratory problem.
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