Table 3

Sources of pesticide advice and application decisions by rice system.

Sources d’information pour le choix des pesticides et la quantité appliquée par les systèmes rizicoles.

Variables Reason for product choice (%) Why did you use this product at this stage? (%) Source of product information (%) Basis for application rate decision (%)
  One cycle-system Two cycle-system Three cycle-system One cycle-system Two cycle-system Three cycle-system One cycle-system Two cycle-system Three cycle-system One cycle-system Two cycle-system Three cycle-system
Advice from seller 45.40 45.65 43.18 32.52 30.21 35.24 79.19 82.19 87.47 63.46 63.51 66.60
Advice from the extension agent 1.48 0.13 0.49 0.78 1.03 0.56 2.71 4.15 1.63 3.08 0.27 0.21
Advice from relative/ neighbor 13.06 7.79 9.25 5.01 3.79 3.20 17.19 13.44 9.54 6.54 3.87 0.42
Farmers’ own experience 18.10 18.86 23.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 21.92 25.95 32.56
Effectiveness 21.66 27.18 22.73 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Affordable cost 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Accessibility 0.00 0.13 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Visible damage 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.24 7.54 5.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Presence of the pest 0.00 0.00 0.00 22.22 17.19 13.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Rice growth stage 0.00 0.00 0.00 16.28 17.68 11.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Preventive 0.00 0.00 0.00 16.02 20.39 30.92 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Labeling 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.03 2.17 0.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00 6.40 0.21
Advertisement/ Media 0.30 0.07 0.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.54 0.00 0.00 0.00

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