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Kishtwaria, Jatinder; Rana, Aruna; Awasthi, Kumud; Lata, Suman. |
The present study was conducted in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh (India) to study the physiological workload of respondents engaged in plucking tea leaves and identify the major causes and consequences of physiological stress. Majority of the respondents had ectomorph body with average physical fitness. During plucking tea leaves, the body of women workers deviate from natural alignment due to varying height of tea bushes. Hence, a continuous awkward standing posture, adverse environment and working conditions increase drudgery and decrease productivity of women workers. The change in environment temperature caused significantly higher physiological stress to the workers. At average working heart rate values during complete cycle of plucking, the... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Drudgery; Cardiac cost; Physiological stress; Fatigue; Workload; Labor and Human Capital. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9317 |
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Amponsah, Shadrack Kwadwo; Sheriff, J Thajudhin; Byju, Gangadharan. |
Abstract: In India, cassava is consumed as a secondary staple along with the main staple, rice, and many rural poor consume it as the staple in different forms of preparations. Though harvesting is known to be one of the most difficult and cost-intensive field operation in cassava cultivation, mechanisation of cassava harvesting is still very low in most cassava growing areas of India due to topographic constraints, methods and scale of cultivation. The most viable solution to overcome these constraints is to promote the use of more efficient manual harvesting tools. Thus, the main objective of this study was to field evaluate the efficiency of four manual cassava harvesting techniques under different land preparation methods in terms of field capacity,... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Farm power and machinery; Agronomy cassava; Field capacity; Drudgery; Coppiced; Efficiency. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2793 |
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