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16425724

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-23
pubmed:abstractText
The use of insecticides in households and in agriculture has been incriminated in the emergence of insecticide resistance in insect vectors. For farming staff, the emergence of vector resistance is due to indoors spray of insecticides using aerosols and other low quality products in rural and urban settings against mosquitoes. On the other hand, public health specialists believe that the phenomenon of resistance could be due to massive use of insecticides in agriculture for field pests control. In Turkey, the implication of agricultural use of pesticides in the selection of vector resistance is clearly established. This study was framed to identify potential practices favouring the emergence of insecticide resistance in the Republic of Benin. Interviews and focus group discussions were organized with cotton, rice and vegetables farmers. The final aim of these surveys was to point out practices likely to favour the emergence of resistance. The research is conducted in 3 cotton fields, 2 rice fields and 2 vegetable plantations. After filling and signing concerned forms, farmers are subjected to quantitative and qualitative questionnaires to generate data on: insecticides being used, the various doses applied for pests eradication, the frequency of treatments, the cost of treatments (cost/hectare/year) the origin of insecticides, the place of purchase, safety precautions and related health hazards. The results of this study have shown that the use of insecticides in agriculture is a clear fact. During treatments, insecticide residues get in contact with mosquito breeding sites where they diffuse into water and exercise a selection pressure on larvae. This partially explains the high levels of resistance recorded in with strains of Anopheles gambiae collected in agricultural settings under insecticides pressure. Pyrethroids and more specifically deltamethrin and cyfluthrin are the insecticides mainly used in studied localities. Bedrooms of farmers are used as storage place for half-used and un-used insecticides containers. For a proper management of insecticides, cotton and vegetable plantations farmers receive assistance from the ministry of rural development. Because of the importance of cotton production in the Republic of Benin, trainings on management of insecticides in agricultural settings are frequently organised by the ministry of rural development and are opened to farmers and their family members (husbands, wives, children and relatives...). In the long run, the whole family learns and becomes very versant with the use of insecticides, spraying frequencies, spraying devices and spraying techniques.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0037-9085
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
400-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Agriculture, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Anopheles gambiae, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Benin, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Focus Groups, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Gossypium, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Hazardous Substances, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Health Education, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Insect Vectors, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Insecticide Resistance, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Insecticides, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Interviews as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Larva, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Nitriles, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Oryza sativa, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Pyrethrins, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Safety, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Social Planning, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16425724-Vegetables
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
[Use of agricultural insecticides in Benin].
pubmed:affiliation
Centre de recherche entomologique de Cotonou, 06 BP. 2604, Bénin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract