Technology intervention for drudgery reduction in rural enterprise- dairy

Abstract

The Dairy enterprise was selected for ergonomic intervention, as it was operative enterprise in all the selected adopted villages. Amongst all the dairy activities, milking activity was selected for technology intervention because it is strenuous activity. The Revolving stand to hold the milk pot at the time of milking was developed by AICRP VNMKV unit in order to reduce stress and strain of milk man due to fear in mind that milk will get spilt due to kick of animal. In order to improve the awkward posture of worker an experiment was conducted with a revolving stool for sitting milkman at the time of milking. When milking activity was performed by using newly developed tools such as revolving stand & stool, there was highly significant reduction in physiological cost of work (14 beats). The results of the on-job testing experiment showed that newly developed revolving stand and stool are easy to move, simple in fabrication, made out of locally available material and by local artisan. It is useful on uneven surfaces, suitable for any type of vessels, low cost, useful for resting the hands while taking break in milking and easy to handle, carry and store. It helps to avoid wastage of milk.