COMPARISON OF ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA OF FEMALE AGRICULTURE WORKERS OF H-K REGION

PREMKUMARI¹*, DEVANAND MASKI², M. VEERANGOUDA³, SUNIL SIRWAL^4
1Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, 584104, Karnataka, India
²Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, 584104, Karnataka, India
³Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, 584104, Karnataka, India
⁴Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, 584104, Karnataka, India
* Corresponding Author : premask504@gmail.com

Received : 30-10-2018     Accepted : 12-11-2018     Published : 15-11-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 21       Pages : 7472 - 7476
Int J Agr Sci 10.21 (2018):7472-7476

Keywords : Anthropometric data, Body dimensions, Female workers, Strength parameter
Academic Editor : Dr Sunita Pandey, Ashish Kumar Bajpai
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, 584104, Karnataka, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Women play s significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields. Therefore efforts were made to analyze the work. This study presents comparisons of anthropometric data female agriculture with other state and other countries. Twenty four body dimensions of female agricultural workers and six strength parameters were compared. The mean stature of present study is 2.13 cm and 0.53 cm more than the mean stature of Madhya Pradesh and Kerala respectively. The present study mean stature is less than the 2.37 and 0.88 of Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh. The female agricultural workers of UAS campus are higher than Madhya Pradesh and Kerala and shorter than Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh. The present data were also compared with male workers of other states the results revealed that male body dimension is higher than all female workers. The mean stature of female worker is less than 10.65, 9.39, 5.56, 7.54, 0.44 and 3.26 American, British, Chinese, Egyptian, Mexican and Taiwanes. All country stature of female agricultural workers was higher than the data collected from UAS campus Raichur.

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