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With more than 30% of the workers in Thailand involved in agriculture, the Thai economy depends greatly on farming. Due to modernization, farms have undergone structural changes adding more mechanization, technology, and globalization, as they try to meet the demands of the global market. The number of pesticides that have been imported and used in Thailand has increased with each passing decade. Thai farmers have had to respond to the market demands for increasing crop yields and the need for greater productivity by not only expanding their tillable land but also using more and more …