User friendly pick bag for pearl millet ear head collection

Various agricultural processes like pre-sowing, weeding, picking and post-picking require extensive farm work. For farm workers engaged, these tasks are not only time consuming but also drudgery inducing over years. This directs for interventions in terms of improved technologies to relieve women from high energy demands, time spent and associated drudgery. An access to affordable technology reduces drudgery, saves time and increases work efficiency of farm workers. Adoption of such technologies radically changes their lives. Therefore, study was conducted to develop user friendly pick bag for Pearl Millet Ear Head Collection which would reduce the drudgery and increase farmers’ efficiency. The study was carried out in the fields at CCSHAU farm, Arya Nagar and Bherian village of Haryana state with the objective to assess suitability for pearl millet ear head collection during pearl millet harvesting season on various parameters. Developed pick bag for Pearl millet ear head collection was found suitable. It was assessed as a good initiative towards reduction of drudgery and increasing work efficiency of the worker, hence recommended over the existing practice (conventional bag) of Pearl Millet Ear Head Collection.