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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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    Health hazards of women working in paddy cultivation
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Sunita Kumari; Kiran Singh
    The present study entitled “Health hazards of women working in paddy cultivation” was undertaken in randomly selected villages of Kaithal district namely Kaul and Deoban and from Kurukshetra district village Mirzapur and Kirmich. Under phase-I a sample of 200 respondents actively involved in paddy cultivation were selected to study the work pattern and health hazards of women in paddy cultivation. Among these 15 farm women from each district were selected randomly for ergonomic evaluation in paddy transplanting and harvesting activity. Under phase-II remedial measures were introduced to 50 farm women for two most chronic health problems. Evolvement and feasibility testing of remedial measures was done. The result of the study showed that majority of the respondents were of young age, illiterate, belonged to middle caste, had medium level of family education status and had nuclear family system. Sixty per cent of the respondents had occupation as agriculture and 39 per cent of them were landless. Average number of days 40.82 spent annually by farm women in paddy cultivation were highest in transplanting activity and time spent hrs/day in harvesting activity was 9.39. Participation of women was found highest (84%) in transplanting activity. Skin allergy (WMS 2.42) and asthma (WMS 2.4) were found most common physiological problems. Transplanting paddy emerged out to be the most hazardous activity in all the activities of paddy cultivation. The results highlighted that average heart rate (128 bpm and 129 bpm), average energy expenditure (11.6 kj/min and 11.8 kj/min) were found to be high in transplanting and harvesting activity. Musculoskeletal problems exhibited severe pain in low back (4.8) followed by mid back (4.1) and upper back (4.0). Waterproof socks as a remedial measure for skin problem and capron for reducing the breathing problem were provided to the respondents.