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Hazards in agriculture
- It includes the following:
a) Machinery: Tractors, trucks and harvesters, and cutting + piercing tools.
b) Chemicals: Pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, and other veterinary products.
c) Toxic or allergic agents: Plants, flowers, dust, animal waste, gloves, oils.
d) Carcinogenic substance: Arsenicals and phenoxy acetic herbicides, UV radiations, Parasitic diseases.
e) Transmissible animal disease: Brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, rabies, etc.