Use of efficient weeding tools to reduce farmers' drudgery ingg tolss to reduce farmers' drudgery


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Authors

  • C. R. Chetan
  • Bikash Sarkar
  • P. K. Singh
  • S. Chander
  • D. Ghosh
  • V. K. Choudhary
  • R. B. Reddy

Abstract

Manual weeding operations are drudgeries and laborious one, which accounts 25% of the total labour requirement during a cultivation season. Energy requirement of khurpi is the least but the work output is also the lowest, where as the wheel hoes (push - pull type) and the selfpropelled power weeders covers a maximum area with acceptable physiological demand, work performance and workers preference. Hence, use of improved weeding tools viz., grubber, wheel hoes, and power weeders etc. is essential to reduce human drudgery and to enhance operator's comfortness in weed management.

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Author Biographies

  • C. R. Chetan
    Scientist (Farm Machinery and Power)  Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 482 004
  • Bikash Sarkar
    Principal Scientist (Farm Machinery and Power), Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 482 004
  • P. K. Singh
    Director,   Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 482 004
  • S. Chander
    Scientist (Economic Botany), Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 482 004
  • D. Ghosh
    Scientist (Agronomy),   Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 482 004
  • V. K. Choudhary
    Scientist (Agronomy), Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur 482 004;
  • R. B. Reddy
    Senior Research Fellow, ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna (Bihar) 800 014.

Published

2018-12-07

Issue

Vol. 68 No. 11 (2018)

Section

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How to Cite

Chetan, C. R., Sarkar, B., Singh, P. K., Chander, S., Ghosh, D., Choudhary, V. K., & Reddy, R. B. (2018). Use of efficient weeding tools to reduce farmers’ drudgery ingg tolss to reduce farmers’ drudgery. Indian Farming, 68(11). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndFarm/article/view/85334