1Research Scholar, Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Technology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand- 263145
2Associate Professor, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Research Scholar, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, Kerala- 680656
4Research Scholar, Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Technology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyala, Mohanpur, West Bengal-741252
Online published on 6 December, 2022.
The rural female workers of diferent age groups were selected to carry intercultural operation for wheat crop using 3-tyne manual cultivator. The anthropometric dimensions of the selected respondents were measured followed by the assessment of physiological responses prior to and post operation. The study revealed that the average resting and working heart rate of the respondents were 79.5 and 107.6 (bpm); BMI, VO2 max and AWL were determined as 20.55 kg/m2, 1.58ml/Kg.min, and 0.58ml/Kg.min. The initial and working average EER (KJ/min) was determined as 5.26 and 7.10; while, the OCR (L/min) was 0.29 and 0.45 respectively. The overall body part discomfort score was 29.50. The study concluded that the physiological variations in the respondents increases with their age and significantly affects the performance of the working operators.
Ergonomics, Physiological variations, BMI, EER, OCR and BPDS
