Animal-driven agriculture is giving way to machine-driven agriculture in India. Aside from the tractors and power weeders that farmers utilise, farm women can use farm tools and implements to lessen their work while increasing output. The study's goal was to look into interventions for reducing drudgery and occupational dangers associated with farm activities. In this regard, the current study attempted to introduce a set of 15 drudgery-reducing farm tools and implements, including sapling transplanters, sickles/kurpis, long-handled weeders, three types of harvest bags, ring cutters, finger guards, milking stand cumstools, head load managers, seed cum fertiliser bags, seed placement tubes, cotton pickers, and fertiliser broad casters. Farm women were exposed to an enhanced range of farm tools and implements as part of a capacity-building training programme. A group of 50 farm women were provided the implements to be used by the village secretary, and data was collected from them regarding their awareness of the technologies before and after the capacity building training programmes. Following the end of a crop season, adoption levels were measured. It was discovered that before training, just a portion of the random selected group was aware of the better equipment, whereas after training, the entire group was aware. Around 62% of the sample has used the technology in a moderate way. To increase acceptance, the study recommended teaching farmers on the benefits of drudgery-reduction technology, training them in the use of farm implements, and providing them with easy access. Custom hiring centres may be the answer for storing improved technologies that are acceptable for farm women and allowing them to be employed on a rotational basis.
Author(S) Details
Velivelli Vijaya Lakshmi
Department of RMCS, College of Community Science, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India.
Swetha Kodali
FRM, AICRP-WIA, PJTSAU, PG&RC, India.
Deepika Jangeti
MANAGE, Hyderabad, India.
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