Evaluation of harvesting Abelmoschus esculentus (OKRA) with improved technology for profitable agriculture compared to traditional methods

Abstract

The Abelmoscgus esculentus pricking is a laborious and time consuming work causing drudgery to farm women. The present study 10 okra cultivating women farmers were selected from five different villages of Nagarkurnool district. The study was carried out for 3 years. In this a comparison of okra ring cutter with gloves and without ring cutter and gloves to harvest okra was studied and resuts showns as the total average harvest using traditional method was 10.25 kg/ hour where as with gloves and ring cutter is 16.7 kg/ hour. The average increase in harvest is 37.71 kg/ hour in the year 2016. In the year 2017 the total average harvest using traditional method was 07.99 kg/ hour where as with gloves and ring cutter is 13.0 kg/ hour. The average increase in the harvest is 38.61 kg/ hour. In the year 2018 the total average harvest using traditional method was 8.3 kg/ hour where as with gloves and ring cutter is 13.4 kg/ hour. The average increase in harvest is 39.71 kg/ hour.