tailieunhanh - Impact of technological demonstrations on yield of Rabi pulses and farmer’s adoption behavior in Vindhyan plateau of Madhya Pradesh

The important extension techniques to persuade the farmers about latest farm technologies are frontline demonstrations (FLDs). The present study was conducted continuously during three years from rabi 2015-16 to 2017-18 to assess the impact of 410 frontline demonstrations conducted on chickpea and lentil in 164 ha area across thirteen villages of Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh falls under Vindhyan Plateau Agro Climatic Zone. The results of demonstrations showed that farmers could increase the chickpea and lentil productivity remarkably by switching over to improved variety and adoption of improved production technology. It was observed from the FLDs that the improved chickpea variety JG 63 recorded the higher seed yield (1537 kg ha-1 ) compared to the farmers' practices variety (992 kg ha-1 ). The increase in the demonstration yield over farmer’s practices was percent. In case of lentil technology demonstrations, the average seed yield was recorded to be 1218 kg ha-1 using JL 3, PL 8 and IPL 316 varieties over farmer's practice (737 kg ha-1 ) with the average increase of percent. | Impact of technological demonstrations on yield of Rabi pulses and farmer’s adoption behavior in Vindhyan plateau of Madhya Pradesh