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These practices expose the farmers, their animals and the environment to pesticide poisoning. Nevertheless, >50% of these respondents were aware of the negative effects pesticides are likely to cause to humans, animals and environment. Therefore, in order to minimize pesticide exposure and toxicity, training and awareness campaigns on pesticides use, particularly pesticide disposal should be rolled out to all the coffee growing agro-ecologies of Uganda. | Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences December 2018 Vol. 7 No. 2 pp. 173-188 ISSN 2334-2404 Print 2334-2412 Online Copyright The Author s . All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI 10.15640 jns.v7n2a17 URL https doi.org 10.15640 jns.v7n2a17 Farmers knowledge and perception of the use of pesticides in Arabica coffee Coffea arabica agro-ecologies of Uganda Kagezi H. Godfrey1 Kucel Patrick Kobusinge Judith Olango D. Nicholas 1Nakibuule Lilian Nanjego Winnie Nambozo P. Babra Olal Sammy and Wagoire W. William Abstract Low yields of coffee in Uganda are due to a number of factors with insects diseases and weeds being paramount. In response farmers respond by applying all kinds of pesticides to control these stresses. A questionnaire to elucidate farmers knowledge and perceptions of pesticide use was therefore administered to 325 randomly selected respondents in the Arabica coffee growing regions of Uganda. Our results showed that only 23 of the respondents had ever used or were using pesticides although 50 of these respondents had knowledge on pesticides use. However the methods of pesticide disposal were poor with 40 of these respondents disposing the wash water and unused waste pesticide on their farms whereas used containers were being burned. Also 60 of these respondents were re-entering their coffee fields in less than one week after spraying. These practices expose the farmers their animals and the environment to pesticide poisoning. Nevertheless 50 of these respondents were aware of the negative effects pesticides are likely to cause to humans animals and environment. Therefore in order to minimize pesticide exposure and toxicity training and awareness campaigns on pesticides use particularly pesticide disposal should be rolled out to all the coffee growing agro-ecologies of Uganda. Key words Agro-ecologies Arabica-coffee disposal farmers handling pesticide-use . Introduction Coffee is a major and leading