A STUDY ON THE PERCEPTION OF FARM WOMEN ABOUT THE EFFICIENCY OF SELECTED DRUDGERY REDUCING FARM IMPLEMENTS
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2007-09-17
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK ,BANGALORE
Abstract
Farm women are involved where work load is more and they continue to use age
old implements which are slow in operation, cause fatigue and drudgery. A number of
implements are now available to reduce drudgery. Hence the research was conducted
to study the perception of farm women about the efficiency of selected drudgery
reducing farm implements and extent of women participation in agricultural
operations. The Kolar, Tumlcur and Chitrhradurga districts were selected for the
study. The data was collected using an interview schedule. Majority of the women
were middle aged, illiterate, had medium level of annual income, medium household
work stress and achievement motivation. Cent per cent of the farm women
respondents reported that the Improved Weeder (Ground nut) is helpful in
avoiding strenuous movement of hands, improved naveen sickle is helpful in
avoiding, hitting the fingers to the ground and groundnut decorticator is helpful in
avoiding strained movements of fingers. Their participation was at 'high' level in
agricultural activities like cleaning and drying produce, animal husbandry activities
like milking and cleaning cattle shed. Age, extension participation, household work
stress and innovative proneness were found to have significant relationship with
perception on the efficiency of dmdgery reducing farm implements. Implement
possession, extension participation and social participation had significant
relationship with the participation in agricultural activities. Average area covered by
the weeder was 0.43 acre while in manual operation it was only 0.09 acre. The
capacity of improved naveen sickle is 0.22 acre/day while in case of traditional sickle
it was only 0.04 acre. The capacity of groundnut decorticator was 29.9 kgs/hr, as
compare to only 2.89 Kgs/hr in case of manual method. Majority of them faced
constraints in operating the weeder when there is less moisture condition. Half of
them expressed that the sickle is heavy and the girth of the handle is not in
accordance with the palm size. About 40 per cent of the women expressed that the
ground nut decorticator is heavy to operate and it also causes back ache.
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