India is characterized by strong temperature variations in different seasons ranging from mean temperature of about 10°C in winter to about 32 °C in summer season. The temperatures start to increase all over the country in March and by April; the interior parts of the peninsula r...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i12798
Until about two and half centuries ago, muscle power was the prime source of energy for performing all the physical activities on our earth, and much of this power had been from human muscles. Because of the socio-economic conditions of farmers in developing countries including I...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i11054
India has a vast geographical area with variations in climate and temperature from region to region. Summers are very harsh in many parts of the country where temperature exceeds 45°C. Most of the agricultural operations in the country are performed by manual labour in such a w...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i12796
Women play a major and crucial role within the agricultural operations. Agriculture is the major occupation in our country and more than 70% of the population depends directly or indirectly on agriculture. In India, 82% of the farmers own marginal and small land less than 2 hecta...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2021/v39i430566
Women play a major and crucial role in doing the agricultural operations. The women workers in Udaipur district mostly uses sickle and kudali for doing weeding operations. This study was conducted in 2019-20 at instructional Farm, CTAE, Udaipur with women farm workers during the...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2021/v39i430561
Heart rate and mean skin temperature (MST) are the physiological workload and overall discomfort rate (ODR), Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is the physical workload due to heat stress. The whole study was conducted during the manual harvesting of wheat crop by using local sic...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i113652
M. K. Choudhary, C. M. Pareek, S. S. Meena & A. K. Mehta·Advances in Research·2018
The pedal-operated maize dehuskar-sheller was ergonomically evaluated with ten male agricultural operators to assess the physiological costs of operation. The Heart Rate, Oxygen Consumption Rate and energy expenditure rate were used for assessment of physiological cost for the op...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/40268