Postures adopted by farm workers in green gram cultivation

Posture is simply the position our bodies adopt in response to the effects of gravity. It is the way we hold ourselves, in sitting, standing or even lying down. Good posture allows us to move in the way we want, causing our bodies the least amount of strain and damage. The present study was conducted in Lautan village, Muraul block, Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, India. A total farm workers of 30 male and 30 female each were selected through multistage purposive sampling method from this villageto assess the posture adopted by farm workers in green cultivation. The study concluded that 100 per cent of the male respondents adopted standing posture in sowing activity and 100 per cent of the female respondents were adopted squatting postures in seed selection and threshing activity.It was also depicted that during harvesting 70 per cent and winnowing 66.66 per cent of the male workers felt it as “very heavy” activity and duringpod drying activity 50 per cent of the male respondents felt it as “very light activity”. And in case of female respondents during harvesting activity 100 per cent, threshing activity 83.33 per cent and land preparation activity 80 per cent of the female respondents felt it as “very heavy” activity and during pod drying activity 17.14 per cent of the female respondents felt it as “very light activity”. It was also observed that 40 per cent of the male respondents felt that standing with slightly forward bending is the most strenuous posture and 43.33 per cent of the female respondents felt that squatting is the most strenuous posture.