@article{jsa2018214,
author={{Islam, Md. Tariqul and Siddeqa, Mawya and Biswas, AKM Abdul Ahad},
title={Smallholder FarmerĄ¯s Knowledge, Perception and Attitude on Occupational Hazard and Safety at Dumki Sub-District of Bangladesh},
journal={Journal of Sociology and Anthropology},
volume={2},
number={1},
pages={21--26},
year={2018},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/jsa/2/1/4},
abstract={Agriculture farmer have enormous occupational risk in rural area of Bangladesh. Dumki upazila is a coastal region of Bangladesh where about 85% population directly or indirectly is related to agriculture for livelihood. This study focuses on to identify the farmerĄ¯s perception on occupational hazard and safety issue, their knowledge, attitude, perception on occupation hazard and safety with investigate whether or not significant differences exist based on selected personal and demographic variables. Both primary and secondary data has been collected from different sources to fulfill the objectives. The results of this study indicated that the occupational hazards includes noise, machinery, skin disease, animal bite, sting etc. but the farmers have no scope for hazard safety ¨C only the indigenous technology are applied to save themselves like local hat, covering leg at rainy season by cloth or poly-thin etc. Farmers have very poor knowledge on occupational hazard and safety. The only focusing issues are their indigenous knowledge gained by inheritably but lack of modern techniques and health policy. Significant result shows on farmerĄ¯s age, cultivation period, education level. FarmerĄ¯s knowledge, perception and attitude differ on different demographic condition-age, sex, education, farm size, farming year. This study focuses on betterment of farmerĄ¯s occupational health by taking proper policy and legislation both in local and national level.},
doi={10.12691/jsa-2-1-4}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}