The Role of Agricultural Employees in Nineveh Directorate of Agriculture in Management of pesticide pollution and Relationship with some variables

Abstract

The present study aims at determine the role of Nineveh Directorate of Agriculture(agricultural employees) in management of the pesticides pollution in generally, and to identifythe role of employees to carry out activities related to the management of pesticide pollutionproblem as well as the study of the relationship among the key role of the agricultural employessin the management of pesticide pollution and all the personal and functional characteristics. Thecommunity of study was include the agricultural staff that distributors on (21) agriculturaldivision of Nineveh province was (210) agricultural employees, the sample of agriculturalemployees was taken by (50%) of (105) agricultural employees whom their specialty relatedwith problem of study. The questionnaire used as a tool to data collect that contain the scale todetermine the role level of agricultural employess in the management of problem pesticidepollution contained of (24) questions accordance with the four-grading scale "large role","medium role", "small role" and "no role", and results reached that the role of agriculturalextension agents in the problem management of the pesticides pollution in general average by(67%). So that the efforts should be combining and make greater by agricultural extension agentsfor the agricultural environment advancement and Elimination from excessive use of pesticide,which may reflect negatively on the production and human health in the futur