Field Acceptability of Improved Cotton Picking Bag on Drudgery Reduction of Farm Women

Abstract

The present study was conducted in two villages viz., Dhanda Kheri and Dumerkhan of Jind District of Haryana state on  purposively selected sample of 30 rural women respondents, who were actively involved in cotton picking. The  respondents were demonstrated three types of cotton picking bags (cot-bag) viz traditional cloth and modified cot-bag.  These two types of cot-bags were given to respondents for cotton picking and their responses towards each type of cot-bag  were comparatively assessed on different parameters viz perceived health hazards or pain during cotton picking, impact of  biomechanical, grip and physical stresses and tool factors and field acceptability. Each attribute was assessed with opinion  of respondents as strongly agreed (S.A.), agreed (A) and disagreed (D). The data were collected by personally  interviewing the respondents through a well structured interview schedule and were statistically analyzed.