Sustainability in the Farming Sector and Physical Comfort in the Workplace to Reduce the Mental Stress of Farmers: A Case Study of Agricultural Farmers in India by Anfis

Background

Sustainability has been a principal-concern for all the nations including the researchers as well as international-business practices (Drexhage and Murphy, 2010). There may have criticality in the measurement of the sustainable-development issues for an effective and efficient sustainable decision-making. However, because of no particular exclusive sustainable-pathway, different approaches as well as criteria need to be chosen by policy makers for efficient sustainable-decisions for every nation and sectors (Andriantiatsaholiniaina et al., 2004). The food demands can be fulfilled by the sustainable agriculture through diverse initiatives (DFID, 2004). Over the past decade, different assessment tools have been developed for sustainability assessment at the farm-levels (Marchand et al., 2014), such as through a series of questionnaires (Sharghi et al., 2010), and so on. However, as farming has been considered as a hazardous as well as stressful occupation, it can directly affect farmers’ health. The farmers usually work repeatedly without any kind of helps for extended-times, with unpredictable equipments and in hard weather-condition. Thus, finding the stressors among farmer may help the health-professionals to improve health-outcomes by developing targeted intervention-strategies and services that can lead to a sustainable agriculture.