Globally, the use of pesticide is growing day by day, but the use of PPE in developing countries is still low and farmers are directly exposed to chemicals which have negative health issues. Thus, this study was conducted in different places of Nepal where the use and adoption of chemical pesticide is high. This study aims on assessment of pesticide handling practices and determinants of adoption of PPE where 281 respondents were interviewed by the simple random sampling technique. A binary logit model was used to predict the determinants for adoption of PPE while spraying pesticides. Schooling years, training, reading label, and buying pesticide by name are the determining factors in adoption of PPE at 1% level of significance in the logit model. Still, the pesticide handling practices followed by farmers are not satisfactory and proper protective clothes are not used while spraying pesticides. Thus, to protect from different health issues, training, seminars, and talk discussion should be scheduled regarding safe pesticide handling practices and adoption of PPE. Also, the use of biopesticides should be encouraged as they are most promising and ecofriendly.

, to study the effect of post harvest treatments on quality and shelf life of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) cultivar Local. It was carried out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five treatments of different types of post harvest treatments viz. T1 = control (distilled water), T2 = bavistin (0.1%), T3 = calcium chloride (1%), T4 = Jeevatu (5%) and T5 = cinnamon oil (2%) replicated four times. Among these post harvest treatments, T1 showed highest percentage of weight loss (15.83%), lowest firmness (2.22 kg/cm 2) and highest TSS (10.70˚ Brix), lowest TA (0.395%) at final day of storage as compared to other treatments. Bavistin was found as the most effective in reducing the physiological loss in weight (10.80%), retained maximum firmness (3.13 kg/cm 2), highest tritrable acidity (0.76%), highest pH (5.08). The minimum total soluble solid (8.75˚Brix) was retained by cinnamon oil. This study revealed that sweet orange treated with bavistin recorded lowest physiological loss in weight (31.77%) and retains more firmness (24.73kg/cm 2) than that of control .Thus, present findings indicate that sweet oranges treated with bavistin increase the shelf life where as cinnamon oil also found to be promising treatment for retaining the quality of the sweet oranges stored up to 28 th days under laboratory condition.