Occupational Health in Agricultural

Occupational Health in Agricultural


Introduction:

Agricultural is oldest occupation, perhaps as old as human civilization. Even today, with industrialization and information age, how much food can product is still the mainly issue for each nation. Especially, for the low economic developing nation, agricultural is the major national economy contributor, for example India, Brazil and South Korea.
In estimate 1.3 billion workers work in Agricultural production, which employ nearly half of the world¡¯s labor force.
From the estimate of International Labor Office, Agricultural is one of the most hazardous sectors of activity in both developed and developing countries. In each year, at least 170,000 agricultural workers are killed. This show that agriculture is least twice the risk of dying on the job as compare with other set of occupation. Agricultural mortality rates remain high in past decade as compare to other sectors.
Million of the agriculture workers get seriously inj...