The surveyed farmers manage in total an agricultural area of 74.13 ha, with an average of 0.43 ha per farmer. The majority of farmers were fulltime involved in agriculture. The respondents mentioned 23 crop types of which rice was the most common crop (64.84%). Pesticides were applied on 90% of the surveyed area, no pesticides were used on banana and tumeric field. Table 3 summarizes the types, areas and periods of the surveyed crops.