95 INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH A Study On Effects Of Chemical Farming On Farmers At Kilkundaiyar Village, Thiruvallur District,

Chemical farming has been adopted by many landlords because it's the faster way to get yield. Farmers who are concerned of the yield, health is not their major concern, their main aim is to provide living to their family, when they work in the farm it is not of their concern to protect themselves from the harmful poisonous pesticides. Farmers who do chemical farming breathe in the poison entire day while spraying, unaware of the fact that it's harmful. Most of the farmers suffer with skin allergies, diseases and the most worsening cancer. Lack of awareness and proper guidance they have been losing their lives. For this study exploratory research design has been adopted. The objectives of this study are; to assess the ill effects of chemical agriculture on farmers, to assess the external input expenditure of farmers and to assess the availability of external inputs. Non probability purposive sampling method has been adopted; the tool for data collection is interview schedule. The respondents of this study are 30 farmers, an inclusive criterion is farmers that have farms and also work in other farms. This study is to know the effects of chemical farming on farmers, results and suggestions are discussed in the main paper