Drudgery reducing revolving pihri-Used for sitting while making animals

Abstract

Seventy to eighty percent of rural women of Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh perform the dairy activities every day and contribute substantially to family income. The frequently performed dairy activities are feeding animals, collecting dung, cleaning shades, milking animals, cutting, collecting and bringing fodder. Mostly every woman performs milking activity every day for 30 to 45 minutes. Women perform this activity in squatting posture and experience pain in lower back, legs, knees and feet. Lower legs become heavy and stiff due to the pooling of blood in the lower extremities. Values of peak heart rate and energy expenditure for performing the activity were found very high and above the acceptable limits of the worker and women rated this activity as very tiring and drudgery prone.