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Reduction on Workload of the Farmer's Family Producing Tulip Bulbs (II) The Characteristics of the Labor in a Diversified Farming of Tulip Bulbs and Paddy Rice.
The purpose of this paper was to obtain some fundamental data for reducing the workload by clarifying the characteristics inclding physical and mental burden of the labor in a diversified farming of tulip and paddy rise. The obtained results were as follows.
1) In tulip bulbs farming, there were two peaks in working time. First is term from June to July for harvesting, processing and shipping, and second is the term in October for bulb planting. The similar patterns were observed in transplanting and harvesting in paddy rice farming, but the two peaks didn't overlap each other.
2) The two peaks of working time in a diversified farming of tulip bulbs and paddy rice gave an influence on daily life time out of labor. Especially working interval time in harvesting of tulip bulbs was the shortest in a year and sleeping time was also the shortest.
3) Required working time (minute/ha) in tulip bulbs farming was 10.6 times and 26.4 than that in planting of paddy rice and harvesting of paddy rice, respectively. The phenomenon was explained by the difference of mechanized levels in two farmings. To promote mechanization in tulip bulbs farming is important in the future.
