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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SUKHAD MODEL CHULHA IN RANGA REDDY DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SUKHAD MODEL CHULHA IN RANGA REDDY DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator VASANTHA, N
 
Contributor MRIDULA REDDY, D
 
Subject PERFORMANCE, EVALUATION, SUKHAD, MODEL, CHULHA, RANGA REDDY, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description In India majority of the rural population
depend.: on fuel wood for their cooking energy
requirements and is being consumed at an enormous rate
which is leading to depletion of forest reserves. To
over come the fuel wood crisis various energy
conserving cooking devices like the improved wo9d
burning chulha have been. developed and installed. In
.the ·present study the evaluation on the performance of
the Sukhad model (improved wood burning chulha )was
undertaken with the following objectives.
1. To find out the cooking practices and fuel
procurement practices followed by households.
2. To study the extent of use of Sukhad chulha ·
3. To evaluate the suitability and acceptance of
the selected chulha in relation to .~ ~ fam
size and fuel availability.
About 1297 'Sukhad' chulhas were installed in
Ranga Reddy District, A.P, during 1988-89 by Nonconventional
Energy Development Corporation of Andhra
Pradesh. Fifteen per cent (195) of the total chulhas
constructed in this district were selected as the
sample for the present study. The selected households
were categorised according to land holding and
distributed as follows: Landless (36%), Marginal
& Small (43%), Medium (12%) and large (9%).
Out of 195 households, 134 families ·were
Users comprising of Regular users (45%), Intermittent
users (15%) and Supplernentors (8%). The Discontinuers
and Non-users accounted for 32 per cent of the
households. It was found that statistically there was
no association between land holding and extent of
~doption. 29 chulhas were dismantled by the families.
In the existing 166 chulhas the structural parts and
accessories were found to be in a satisfactory
condition. In most of the households the dimensions of
the chulhas differed from the standard measurements.
Rice, roti, meat or chicken and eggs . were
cooked on first pot seat and milk/tea and water were
heated on the second pot seat in many of the
households. Alternative cooking devices besides Sukhad
chulha were possessed by 70 per cent of the Users.
The commonly · used combination of fuel among
the selected families was wood and dung cakes. The
amount of non-commercial fuels consumed per day was
recorded in the User families after introduction of
Sukh~d chulha. As the farm size increased, the fuel
energy consumptio~ also increased except in Large farm
category. The fuel energy consumption was found to be
statistically significant between Landless and Large
farmers, Landless and Medium farmers, Landless and Marginal
& Small farmers.
The chulhas were maintained well· as plastering
was done daily in 66 per cent of the Users but the
chimnies were not cleaned in 55 per cent of the
families. The benefits derived by the use of the
Sukhad chulha were ranked by the households in order of
.priority as smokeless work area, reduced soot on vessels, saving of time and no coughing.some of
·the :households · faced the problems like more smoke
emission,. more soot and burning of eyes. These were
probably due to improper construction of chulha,
cleaning of chimney pipe and soot hole.
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Some families discontinued the use of Sukhad
chulha due to the reasons like, it took more time to
cook food, consumed more fuel and poor quality of
cooked product. They were using other cooking devices
such as three stone fire,potter's stove and kerosene
stoves instead of Sukhad chulha. The advantages derived
by using these devices were less fuel consumption and
good quality of cooked product.
With regard to the monitoring of chulhas it
was found that in majority. of the households no proper
instructions .were given to them ·· in the· . use and
maintainence . of the chulha.
From the present study it can be concluded
that though a higher percentage of families are using
the Sukhad chulhas, the level of adoption of the
chulhas and their acceptance can be increased further
by formulating more effective chulha programmes.
 
Date 2016-08-19T11:55:17Z
2016-08-19T11:55:17Z
1990
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/72979
 
Language en
 
Relation D3423;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD.