DRUDGERY REDUCTION OF FARM WOMEN THROUGH IMPROVED TOOLS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 14
Abstract
The present investigation aimed to equip farm women technologically for reducing their drudgery and enhancing their productivity. Three villages were selected purposively from Dantiwada taluka near to the university. Total one fifty farm women were selected using simple random sampling technique, fifty from each. The study illustrated that farm women were involved in wide range of agricultural and livestock activities and most of them were perceived as difficult to perform by majority of the farm women. On comparing energy expenditure of farm women during performing agricultural activities in traditional practice and by using drudgery reducing tools, their energy expenditure decreased by using hand ridger (13.381 KJ/min) while it is same by using sickle (10.996 KJ/min) and maize sheller (6.703 KJ/min). Though energy expenditure increased by using groundnut decorticator (9.724 KJ/min), the outcome increased almost ten folds by using each tool.
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ALOK GORA
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