Ergonomics evaluation of okra ring cutter in Shahdol district, Madhya Pradesh

Farm women are mainly involved in tedious, monotonous, time consuming task in agriculture the result of which is that they are subjected to drudgery. The farm women are compelled to long static postures resulting in physical drudgery to their body. In spite of current scenario of agricultural advancements, the drudgery of farm women remains the same with non-friendly technologies and implements. Thus for the benefit of farm women and to aid in ease of farm women involved in okra plucking the okra ring cutter was evaluated. The results revealed that the use of ring cutter reduced the drudgery of farm women with higher productivity per unit of time. The ring cutter increased the efficiency by nearly two times as compared to traditional hand harvesting method.