International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Dr. Alpana Sharma, Dr. A Singh, Dr. N Vishwakarma and Dr. SK Singh

abstract
Farm women are mainly involved in tedious, monotonous, time consuming task in agriculture, the result of which they are subjected to drudgery. The farm women are been compelled to long static postures resulting in physical drudgery to their body. In spite of current scenario of agricultural advancements, the drudgery of Farm women remains the same with non friendly technologies and implements (Singh, S.P. 2012). Thus for the benefit of farm women and to aid in ease of Farm women involved in Mahua seed Decortication the mahua seed decorticator was evaluated. The result revealed that the use of mahua seed decorticator reduces the drudgery of farm women by 68.33%. The decorticator increased the efficiency by nearly more than six times as compare to traditional decortication method.