Socio-economic Determinants of Environmental Risk and Safe Pesticide Use: A Canonical Correlation Analysis
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Chilli growers, Canonical correlation analysis, Environmental risk perception, Safe pesticide use, Socio economic characteristics.Abstract
The study was conducted in 2025-26 at Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh and examines the significant impact on socio-economic factors of chilli growers and their perceptions of environmental risk and safe pesticide use in the study area. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was used to identify the connection between independent variables with dependent variables of chilli growers. A multistage sampling technique was used to choose 160 chilli growers from four mandals in the Guntur district. Perceptions of environmental risk and safe pesticide use were regarded as dependent variables, while eleven socioeconomic factors were classified as independent variables. The first canonical pair of variates showed stronger canonical correlation of 81.72 per cent with high Eigen values. It was mainly influenced by attitude, knowledge, education, age and information source. The second function, showed 37.58 per cent of the shared variance was mostly determined by structural characteristics that influenced perceptions of environmental risk, specifically the area under chilli cultivation. The findings suggest how cognitive, attitudinal and resource-based socioeconomic factors significantly influence growers’ perspectives. Promoting ecologically safe pesticide practices requires bolstering extension interventions that emphasize knowledge, attitude and risk communication.
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