Tingkat keracunan dan perilaku petani dalam menggunakan pestisidadi kabupaten brebes

.Poisoning by pesticide on sprayer farmers was caused by the behavior of using pesticide disobeyeing the right order of dosage, kind, and Way. The farmers are getting fond to use pesticide when germ attact is getting difficult to be solved, and the farmers also often use pestiside whether there is germ or not. The research aim is to know the behavior of sprayer farmers in using pesticide related to the poisoning level (poisoning status and felt subjective complaint) in Brebes district Central Java. This research is observational research with cross sectional approach, using qualitative and quantitative method, held in area of onion plant producer and most pesticide users in Central Java. The subject of the research is pesticide sprayer farmers. As many as 419 people were chosen in simple random. Independent variables were knowledge, attitude, and practice of sprayer farmers in using pesticide. The dependent variable was poisoning level and felt subjective complaint. Blood cholinesterase content was measured by using kinetic test method. From 419 sprayer farmers, 106 suffered from poisoning. The result of correlate logistic regresion showed that there was a significant correlation between practice of usingpesticide with poisoning level and felt subjective complaint (