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 world production of vegetables, India is the second largest producer next to china. In India, there is no mechanization available for onion transplanting. The transplanting of onion seedlings mainly depends on farm workers. So, manually operated two row paper pot onion transplanter was developed. In agricultural mechanization, the major role of ergonomics is to increase the efficiency of the operation. The study was conducted to evaluate the manually operated two row paper pot onion transplanter and compared with conventional method of transplanting. It was found that the maximum heart rate, energy expenditure rate, oxygen consumption rate and work pulse value of farm workers were 118 beat min-1, 9.8 KJ min-1, 0.66 L/min and 32 beats min-1 with the workload of moderate in two row paper pot onion transplanter and the maximum heart rate, oxygen consumption rate and energy expenditure rate of farm workers were 135 beats min-1, 12.6 KJ min-1, 0.859 L/min and 50.5 beats min-1 with the work load of heavy in conventional method. The overall discomfort rate and musculo-skeletal problem is less in transplanter compared with conventional methods.
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