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Assessment of Drudgery Level of Female Farm Workers Involved in Sugarcane Cultivation


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1 Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.), India
2 Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.), India
     

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Women’s participation in sugarcane cultivation shows much heterogeneity at the regional level. Evidence suggests that women are often paid less than men, for the same work. Sugarcane cultivation is tedious, tiresome and labour consuming, because agricultural workers has to stand in field and bend for hours for performing the activities. Keeping this in view, the present study was planned to assess the rate of human drudgery female farm workers, during various phases of sugarcane cultivation. Results revealed that the weeding activity require maximum time (193.65 min/day) followed by harvesting activity requiring 162.79 min/day. In trash mulching activity, agricultural workers spend their maximum time i.e. 170.64 min/day. During cleaning of field activity, for agricultural workers required only 159.35 min/ day. It was also observed that as compared with others, weeding was the maximum drudgery prone sugarcane cultivation activity based on drudgery index.

Keywords

Drudgery, Agriculture Workers, Sugarcane Cultivation, Occupational Hazards.
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Authors

Pragya Ojha
Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.), India
Poonam Singh
Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.), India
Abha Singh
Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.), India

Abstract


Women’s participation in sugarcane cultivation shows much heterogeneity at the regional level. Evidence suggests that women are often paid less than men, for the same work. Sugarcane cultivation is tedious, tiresome and labour consuming, because agricultural workers has to stand in field and bend for hours for performing the activities. Keeping this in view, the present study was planned to assess the rate of human drudgery female farm workers, during various phases of sugarcane cultivation. Results revealed that the weeding activity require maximum time (193.65 min/day) followed by harvesting activity requiring 162.79 min/day. In trash mulching activity, agricultural workers spend their maximum time i.e. 170.64 min/day. During cleaning of field activity, for agricultural workers required only 159.35 min/ day. It was also observed that as compared with others, weeding was the maximum drudgery prone sugarcane cultivation activity based on drudgery index.

Keywords


Drudgery, Agriculture Workers, Sugarcane Cultivation, Occupational Hazards.

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