Abstract
Economy of Pakistan is based on exports of cotton and cotton products, and cotton-growing farmers are the
vertebrae of Economical backbone of the country. Cotton growing farmers (male) involved in monitoring of quality
and quantity of cotton crops by handsome usage of pesticides for better yield and marketing. To assess their
knowledge for diagnosing the pests, attacking their crops and their orientation about the pesticide chemicals and
their usage, study in hand was designed and conducted in 20 villages of district Multan selected by multistage
random sampling technique. The selected 20 villages, from the list bearing the villages, mouzas and union
councils of district Multan. 220 cotton growers were selected by simple random sampling technique and
interviewed through a reliable and validated interview schedule. The data collected were processed through
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that almost 71% of cotton growing farmers
were in a position to diagnose the pests, damaging their cotton crops whereas; almost 29% of respondents had
no pest diagnosis concept. The data showed that 75% of cotton growing farmers were having orientation about
side effects of pesticide chemicals, whereas almost 94% of respondents were involved in pesticide using
practices.
