You are a farmer by profession and own a few acres of land. Many other farmers from nearby places, those own insufficient land and landless people, work as labourers on your farm. They do all sort of work including spraying insecticides and herbicides. Many farmers in your district committed suicides and continued to do so including some of your workers. You came across the newspaper article that informs that many studies all over the world claim that insecticides play major role in motivating persons to commit suicides. It is not limited to commit suicide by drinking insecticides. While handling and spraying, molecules of insecticides are inhaled and get accumulated in the body over the years. This affects human brain and neuro system and attitudes like frustration, depression and self-destruction are developed among these persons. What will be your response to this information?

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I will provide all quality safety equipment to my labourers and train them to handle and spray insecticides with necessary care.
I will stop using these chemical insecticides as they are life threatening and use other remedies for saving my produce from insects without bothering about the yield.
I will consult reliable expert or get authentic information using internet to find out availability of safe insecticides, even if they are costly.
I will have to wait for further research and till then I will continue to use insecticides that I am using now for to keep my crops safe from the insects.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option 3.

Summary of the situation:

You are a farmer by profession, some landless people work in your farm.
They do all sort of work including spraying insecticides and herbicides.
Many farmers in your district committed suicides and continued to do so including some of your workers.
You came across the newspaper article in which said, insecticides play a major role in motivating persons to commit suicide.
These pesticides affect the human brain and neuro system of landless people who work on a farm
What will be your response to this information?

Additional Information

Answer	Statement	Conclusion
Most Appropriate	I will consult reliable expert or get authentic information using internet to find out availability of safe insecticides, even if they are costly.	As we all know fake news or misinformation prevails everywhere so it is best to adopt a scientific approach while taking any decision option 3 looks most appropriate here.
Appropriate	I will stop using these chemical insecticides as they are life threatening and use other remedies for saving my produce from insects without bothering about the yield.	If all the rumors are true that chemical insecticides are really life-threatening then such kinds of insecticides should be stopped to use. therefore this option look appropriate.
Less considerable	I will provide all quality safety equipment to my labourers and train them to handle and spray insecticides with the necessary care.	Such kind of step looks appropriate but here the scientific approach missing and we act as per the prevailing rumors, and such a step looks hypothetical therefore this option looks less considerable.
Inappropriate	I will have to wait for further research and till then I will continue to use insecticides that I am using now for to keep my crops safe from the insects.	here use of the insecticide step looks inappropriate.