Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system
Weeding activity in vegetable cultivation carried out by women is one of the drudgery prone activities. Women are regularly adopting poor and static posture while doing weeding for long hours by traditional equipment, resulting in various physical load on spine or lumbo-sacral region leads to drudge...
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| author | R R Burman Pratibha Joshi J P Sharma Nishi Sharma Girijesh Singh Mahra Shailendra Sharma Rajesh Kumar Rahul Singh V P Chahal A K Singh |
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| description | Weeding activity in vegetable cultivation carried out by women is one of the drudgery prone activities. Women are regularly adopting poor and static posture while doing weeding for long hours by traditional equipment, resulting in various physical load on spine or lumbo-sacral region leads to drudgery coupled with work related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The research paper aims to assess and quantify the drudgery with weeding activity by rural women in which physiological ergonomics evaluation was done for traditional method and with improved technological support with three replications of fifteen minutes work cycle without rest pause. Ergonomic parameters namely Heart Rate, Energy Expenditure Rate, Total Cardiac Cost of Work, Physiological Cost of Work, VO2 Max were measured during the experiments. Observations were recorded on farm women worker with normal health, without any major illness, regularly involved in farm operations and were in the age group of 25 to 45 years. Weeding activity of farm women was quantified and a sample of 10 physically fit rural women having permissible limit of physiological parameters were selected for the study. It was found from investigation that there was reduction in human physiological parameters, viz. heart rate, energy expenditure rate, Total Cardiac Cost of Work, Physiological Cost of work, Blood pressure and Oxygen Saturation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd98e26da2ea496fbff3cfafec0b58aa2023-02-14T09:10:10ZengIndian Council of Agricultural ResearchThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences0019-50222394-33192020-06-0190310.56093/ijas.v90i3.101505Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production systemR R Burman0Pratibha Joshi1J P Sharma2Nishi Sharma3Girijesh Singh Mahra4Shailendra Sharma5Rajesh Kumar6Rahul Singh7V P Chahal8A K Singh9Principal Scientist, Division of Agriculture Extension, ICAR, New DelhiScientist, Centre For Agriculture Technology Assessment and Transfer, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaJoint Director (Extension), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaSenior Scientist, Centre For Agriculture Technology Assessment and Transfer, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaScientist, Division of Agriculture Extension, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaSRF, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaField Assistant, Farmer FIRST Project, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IndiaACTO, Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New DelhiADG (AE), ICAR, New Delhi.Director, ICAR-IARI, New DelhiWeeding activity in vegetable cultivation carried out by women is one of the drudgery prone activities. Women are regularly adopting poor and static posture while doing weeding for long hours by traditional equipment, resulting in various physical load on spine or lumbo-sacral region leads to drudgery coupled with work related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The research paper aims to assess and quantify the drudgery with weeding activity by rural women in which physiological ergonomics evaluation was done for traditional method and with improved technological support with three replications of fifteen minutes work cycle without rest pause. Ergonomic parameters namely Heart Rate, Energy Expenditure Rate, Total Cardiac Cost of Work, Physiological Cost of Work, VO2 Max were measured during the experiments. Observations were recorded on farm women worker with normal health, without any major illness, regularly involved in farm operations and were in the age group of 25 to 45 years. Weeding activity of farm women was quantified and a sample of 10 physically fit rural women having permissible limit of physiological parameters were selected for the study. It was found from investigation that there was reduction in human physiological parameters, viz. heart rate, energy expenditure rate, Total Cardiac Cost of Work, Physiological Cost of work, Blood pressure and Oxygen Saturation.https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/101505Load carrying activityErgonomicsREBAPostural assessmentFetching fuel |
| spellingShingle | R R Burman Pratibha Joshi J P Sharma Nishi Sharma Girijesh Singh Mahra Shailendra Sharma Rajesh Kumar Rahul Singh V P Chahal A K Singh Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Load carrying activity Ergonomics REBA Postural assessment Fetching fuel |
| title | Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| title_full | Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| title_fullStr | Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| title_short | Quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| title_sort | quantification of drudgery and ergonomics assessment of weeding activity in vegetable production system |
| topic | Load carrying activity Ergonomics REBA Postural assessment Fetching fuel |
| url | https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/101505 |
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