Factor Influencing Chemical Pesticides Use among Fruits Vegetable (Solanaceous crops) Farmers in East Coast Economic Region (ECER)

The rapid growth of food demand in Malaysia have caused many fruits vegetable farmers to improve production to meet the demand by using chemical pesticides to control pests
attacked towards their crops. The growing issues on effect of chemical worried people and caused them to find another alternatives way for crop protection from pests. The objective of this study is to identify factor influencing chemical pesticides use among fruits vegetable farmers in ECER. The questionnaires were distributed by using purposive sampling method to 105 fruits vegetable farmers in ECER. Descriptive analysis and Spearman correlation were used for analysis methods to achieve the purpose of study. The findings indicated that the most influencing factors of chemical pesticides use among fruits vegetable farmers is the attitude. Generally, there are significant relationship between factor influencing chemical pesticides use among fruits vegetable farmers with attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. The future study should be more focus on all type of vegetables farmers to determine the factor influencing chemical pesticides use. Then, this study also can be improved by adding new variable such as knowledge in order to ensure either it has a relationship or not with the factor influencing chemical pesticides use among farmers.