Abstract
Most of slopes of levee made by land consolidation may often be wide at a steep sloping area.Therefore, the work for weeding should be difficult in terms of the shortage of labor and the advanced age of farmers.
In the present paper, we investigated on the paddy field, in which land consolidation has been achieved, to clarify the form of weeding levee and the present condition of weeding work. Results obtained are as follows:
1) The levee slope tends to make steep sloping parts in order to be reduced unusable land.
2) As heavy labor by using power grass cutter needs for weeding work, farmers are used to devise various methods to lighten the work.But some farmers should stop the levee weeding work due to their heavy labor.
3) The weeding work varies with method and the part on the slope of levee.As the trim-up method which needs heavy labor is adopted at the slope toe, worker's physical burden may inevitably increase.It may be expected the countermeasure to lighten for weeding work at the slope which is needed heavy labor, especially at the toe of the slope.
