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. 2015 Feb 3;88(7):963–972. doi: 10.1007/s00420-015-1024-3

Table 2.

Crop areas and pesticide exposure characteristics

	Characteristics of crop areas and pesticide exposure in FO (n = 20)
Total farm area (ha) mean ± SD (min–max)	137 ± 62 (58–307)
Area devoted to crops (ha) mean ± SD (min–max)	123 ± 50 (55–230)
Wheat (%)^a	20/20 (100 %)
Wheat area (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	62 ± 28 (30–128)
Peas (%)^a	19/20 (95 %)
Peas area (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	23 ± 14 (6–57)
Corn (%)^a	10/20 (50 %)
Corn area (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	22 ± 23 (5–75)
Beet (%)^a	15/20 (75 %)
Beet area (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	10 ± 6 (4–24)
Fruit growing (%)^a	5/19 (1 missing data) (25 %)
Fruit growing (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	4 ± 3 (1–8)
Truck farming (%)^a	3/20 (15 %)
Truck farming (ha)^b mean ± SD (min–max)	17 ± 17 (1–36)
Duration of pesticide use (years) mean ± SD (min–max)	17 ± 8 (4–31)
Pesticide treatments (number of days of treatment between S0 and S4) for n = 15 (5 missing data)
Herbicide treatments mean ± SD (min–max)	12 ± 8 (2–33)
Insecticide treatments mean ± SD (min–max)	3 ± 3 (0–13)
Fungicide treatments mean ± SD (min–max)	6 ± 5 (0–18)

^aNumber of FO who grow this crop

^bRestricted to FO who grow this crop