ABSTRACT

West Bengal ranks first among all other states of India in terms of paddy cultivating area and paddy production. Agricultural workers constrained to work throughout the day irrespective of variation in working condition prevailing in the working environment. Earlier studies reports that, agricultural workers performed different tasks during the paddy cultivating time not only time immemorial but also source of drudgery for them. Hence, the assessment of cardiac strain is an important factor for the human resources occupationally engaged in open air working environment. In this backdrop, the present study has been undertaken to assess cardiac strain in 45 male agricultural workers (age range 24-36 years) involved in manual ploughing during ‘Aman’ type of paddy cultivation and compare it with 47 male individuals engaged in similar type of task during ‘Boro’ type of paddy cultivation. Results of the present study indicated that unfavorable thermal environmental condition in working environment mostly prevalent during ‘Aman’ type of paddy cultivation making the task strenuous for the human resources engaged in paddy cultivation. Keywords: Paddy, thermal working environment, climate change, cardiac cost, Hooghly
Publication date: 01/02/21

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.2.5338