Vol. 7, Special Issue 6 (2019)
Introduction of Drudgery Reduction Tools among farmers of the Eastern part of Bihar State
Author(s): Sanoj Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta and Arvind Bhai Patel
Abstract: Agriculture being an important occupation for the rural people in Bhagalpur district has potential for development. But it is involved with a lot of drudgery work. Drudgery is generally conceived as physical and mental strain, agony, monotony and hardship experienced by the human being while all of farm labourers in this regard suffer the most due to heavy burden of drudgery on them. So the need of the day is to empower the farm labours through technology to have high efficiency in their work output and reduce drudgery through labour friendly farm tools and implements. The drudgery prone condition leads to various health problems and mechanical hazards which create physical fatigue and low productivity. Hence there is a need that all the farm tools/equipments should have ergonomic design. Ergonomics is a science that works for easing the task of human being by equipment, knowledge and surroundings that will suit each worker. It helps the farmers/labours to solve the problems involved in performing various agricultural operations. Farmers/ farm women are not always aware of the improvements they could make by using scientific and technological knowledge. Farmers/Farm women are vulnerable as new and improved technologies are inaccessible for them. It is imperative that they are exposed to these technologies and encouraged and motivated to adopt the new technologies which would help them to improve their quality of life. Three hand tools namely, Bhindi Plucker, improved sickle and tubular Maize sheller were provided to farmers of three villages under Bhgalpur district of Bihar, for minimizing the drudgery involved and increasing the output. Bhindi plucker and improved sickle has improved their work efficiency by 40% and 23.6% respectively. While use of tubular maize sheller has improved the output, reducing time for maize shelling.
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Sanoj Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta and Arvind Bhai Patel. Introduction of Drudgery Reduction Tools among farmers of the Eastern part of Bihar State. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2019; 7(6): 422-426.
