Drudgery reduction of farm women through improved tools

The goal of the current study was to provide farm women with technology tools to lessen their labour and increase their output. Three villages were selected purposively from Kurai block of Seoni district in 2020-23. Atotal of 80 farm women were selected using simple random sampling technique, out of them 15 viz., 5 from each village were participated in drudgery reduction intervention in three years. Data were collected by using an interview schedule that was pre-tested and self-organized. Additionally, field research was conducted to study women’s agricultural activities. On comparing energy expenditure of farm women during performing decortications activities the average energy expenditure (KJ/min.) was 9.40 under recommended practices (RP) against 11.11 in farmer’s practice (FP) and per cent reduction in energy was observed to be 15.33. Further, it was also found that average output (Kg/hr) of final product (decorticated seed/split) was11.03% from decorticator and the least output average viz., 2.75 per cent from farmers’ practice.