Impact of front line demonstration on yield and economics of Wheat

Abstract

The present investigation was done by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Manpur, Gaya in its 5 adopted villages (Bersima, Nawada, Mahmadpur, Sikahar and Sanaut) to know the Yield Gap, Economic Return, Extent of farmer’s satisfaction and Constraints faced by the farmers. In this study, 100 respondents selected were all those farmers on whose field FLD was conducted during the years 2015-16 and 2016-17. The plot size was 0.4ha for both Demonstration and Local Check. Before conducting FLD, the respondents were made abreast with the latest recommended package of practices of wheat. The demonstrated technologies under FLD resulted in an increase in yield by 19.15% over Local Check. It was also observed that there was technology gap (TG), extension gap (EG) and technology index (TI) of 9.11q/ha, 4.96 q/ha and 22.76 percent respectively. The economic performance of wheat under FLD showed an additional return of Rs.8085.5/ ha and additional cost of cultivation of Rs. 1525/ ha with BC ratio of 1.91 for demonstration and 1.70 for Local Check. The respondent satisfaction index (RSI) revealed that majority of respondent farmers expressed high (57.00%) level of satisfaction about Front Line Demonstration followed by medium (33.00%) and least under low category (10.00%). Unavailability of improved seed varieties of wheat in relation to climate change was found to be most confronting constraint as perceived by them and ranked I which was followed by Low technical knowledge about recommended package of practices (II) and Use of higher seed rate was identified as least important constraint and ranked as X in their priority list. The yield of demonstration was found higher than the local check but still lagging behind its potential yield. Thus, the yield could further be increased through effective extension methods like training and demonstration.

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“…It illustrates that during the years 2019-20 and 2020-21 the technology index were respectively 35.50 percent and 28.6 percent with the mean technology index of 32.0 percent. Hiremath and Nagaraju (2009) [3] ; Kushwaha, et al (2016) [7] ; Kumar, et al (2020) [5] and M. (2021) also found the same type of result.…”