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農民學院安全用藥訓練成效
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Effectiveness of the Farmers
’
Academy Pest Control
and Safe Pesticide Use Course
Tzu-Fen Chen
1
* , Miao-Fan Chen
1
, Mei-Hui Wang
1
, Yu-Hsia Ho
1
Abstract
Chen, T. F., Chen, M. F., Wang, M. H., and Ho, Y. H. 2016. Effectiveness of the Farmers
’
Academy pest
control and safe pesticide use course. Taiwan Pestic. Sci. 1: 206-217.
We investigated the training effectiveness associated with the pest control and safe
pesticide use course offered by The Farmers’ Academy. Specifically, we evaluated whether
trainees had a comprehensive understanding of pest control and pesticides and whether
trainees were able to reduce pesticide expenditures, increase revenue, and improve the
cultivation, management, and agricultural productivity of crops following completion of
training. For this, we designed a questionnaire based on the “behavior level” and “result
level” of Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model. We received 99 valid questionnaires (a
recovery rate of 79.2%), and found that one to two years after training, 66.7% of trainees
considered in this study reported an increase in crop sales (rang: 11 to 20%); 79.8% reported
an increase in agricultural operating profit (range: 11 to 20%); and 89.9% reported a decrease
in pesticide expenses (range: from 10 to 30%).
Key words:
training effectiveness, pesticide, Farmers’ Academy.
Accepted: September 19, 2016.
* Corresponding author, Email:
feny3721@tactri.gov.tw1
Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute, Council of Agriculture. Taichung.