National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present findings focuses on the assessment of anthropometrical, physical and physiological characteristics undergone by male operators during weeding operation. The variations were measured prior to and after the commencement of weeding activity. The VO2max and AWL was 27.59 mL/Kg min and 9.61 respectively. Assessment of physiological parameters includes average resting heart rate of the respondents which was reckoned as101.33 bpm. The average working heart rate during weeding activity in case of hand hoe and wheel hoe was 112.33 and 108.83 (bpm) respectively. The average EER and OCR values were 8.19 kJ/min and 0.53 L/min in case of hand hoe and for wheel hoe it was 7.88 kJ/min and 0.51 L/min respectively. The average BPDS of subjects were ascertained as 25.4and 21.4 for hand hoe and wheel hoe respectively. The subjects experienced light physical work in case of wheel hoe and moderately heavy physical work in hand hoe.
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