期刊名称：International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management
电子版ISSN：2395-5252
出版年度：2021
卷号：3
期号：5
页码：698-702
DOI：10.35629/5252-0305565567
语种：English
出版社：IJAEM JOURNAL
摘要：Agriculture is the main source of employment for women in most of the developing countries. In rural areas about 60-70 percent of agriculture operations is not work efficient and leads to cause drudgery. All the post harvest activities are not only drudgery prone rather time consuming. The study was conducted in Samastipur district in Bihar state to know the musculoskeletal disorders and extent of musculoskeletal problems of farm women in maize shelling activities with the University developed maize sheller over traditional method. The maize sheller design was developed by the Workshop Superintendent under the guidance of the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa. The efficiency of UDMS was ergonomically tested on farm women. The results highlighted that in the traditional method of maize shelling activity, musculoskeletal problems was noted a major problem as cent percent of respondents expressed that they had faced severe pain in their legs, wrist, finger and upper back (100%) each. So far as extent of musculoskeletal problem is concerned, the maximum women expressed severe pain in their wrist (80%), finger( 73.3%),shoulder ( 56.6 %),leg and lower back(56.6%) each, which was followed by a moderate pain in their upper back (53.3%). While in case of newly developed maize sheller machine farm women encountered meager musculoskeletal problem i.e. moderate pain in their lower back and wrist (36.6%) each.
