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The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture

Pesticides labels contain specific information that is of interest at various pesticide handling stages. In current study, 14 students from Faculty of Agro Based Industry, University Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia were assessed on their ability to understand the content of 14 pesticides product labels....

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Main Authors: Marcela Pimid, Kumara Thevan Krishnan
Format: Non-Indexed Article
Published: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan 2015
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8040/
http://jtrss.org/JTRSS/volume3/JTRSS-17-07-14-AM2/3-2-18-21.pdf
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spelling my.umk.eprints.80402022-05-23T10:24:51Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8040/ The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture Marcela Pimid Kumara Thevan Krishnan Pesticides labels contain specific information that is of interest at various pesticide handling stages. In current study, 14 students from Faculty of Agro Based Industry, University Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia were assessed on their ability to understand the content of 14 pesticides product labels. The results of this study indicate that students were able to retrieve information such as hazard class, manufacturer and signal word with accuracy of 97.5 %, 98.7 % and 86.2 % without any formal training, respectively. Meanwhile, the worst performances of students were in retrieving information of the type of formulation from the pesticide product label which, only 4 responses (5 %) were accurate. Universiti Malaysia Kelantan 2015 Non-Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed Marcela Pimid and Kumara Thevan Krishnan (2015) The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture. Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Sciences, 3. pp. 18-21. ISSN 2289-3946 http://jtrss.org/JTRSS/volume3/JTRSS-17-07-14-AM2/3-2-18-21.pdf
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description Pesticides labels contain specific information that is of interest at various pesticide handling stages. In current study, 14 students from Faculty of Agro Based Industry, University Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia were assessed on their ability to understand the content of 14 pesticides product labels. The results of this study indicate that students were able to retrieve information such as hazard class, manufacturer and signal word with accuracy of 97.5 %, 98.7 % and 86.2 % without any formal training, respectively. Meanwhile, the worst performances of students were in retrieving information of the type of formulation from the pesticide product label which, only 4 responses (5 %) were accurate.
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author Marcela Pimid
Kumara Thevan Krishnan
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Kumara Thevan Krishnan
The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
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Kumara Thevan Krishnan
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title The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
title_short The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
title_full The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
title_fullStr The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
title_full_unstemmed The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture
title_sort need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents in faculties of agriculture
publisher Universiti Malaysia Kelantan
publishDate 2015
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8040/
http://jtrss.org/JTRSS/volume3/JTRSS-17-07-14-AM2/3-2-18-21.pdf
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