| Challenges | Total respondents/(%) | Perception about pesticides |
| Insects pest | 72 (77.4) | Pesticides are harmful only under certain conditions and entry points |
| Plant diseases | 68 (73.1) | Pesticides harm mostly some people like, the old and people with weak immune system |
| High cost of pesticides | 62 (66.7) | Pesticides are harmless to human |
| Fluctuating weather conditions | 61 (65.6) | Pesticides are harmful but their preventive methods can cause more harm than good |
| Limited storage life of tomatoes | 58 (62.4) | Farmers think they are already taken enough precautions |
| Lack of pest resistant tomatoes | 51 (54.8) | Farmers suffer from ill-health from pesticides but they attribute it to something else other than the pesticide |
| Uncertainty in market situation | 48 (51.6) |
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| Dampening-off of seedlings in nurseries | 33 (35.5) |
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