(i) - Overtime working for casual labourers.
- Greater use of casual labourers
(ii) - Mechanization – for example, wheat harvesting
- Use of contractor who may be engaged to do some work.
(iii) - Cropping systems device such that ripening of crops will be at different times.
- Work study to device new techniques of doing work more quickly and efficiently for example, tea picking.
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