Assessment of front line demonstrations on chickpea in Ferozepur district of Punjab
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https://doi.org/10.59797/jfl.v32i1.705Keywords:
Chickpea, Front Line Demonstration, Grain yield, Technology gapAbstract
The present investigations were carried out by KVK, Ferozepur during the year 2017 in the three clusters of two blocks of the district. 50 front line demonstrations were conducted on chickpea variety PBG 7. The results of the study showed higher average grain yield (18.75 q/ha) in the demonstration plots in comparison with check plots of farmers own practice (16.11 q/ha). There was 16.28 per cent increase in yield of demonstration plots from farmer’s practice. Whereas, among the two blocks of Ferozepur district, higher grain yield was observed in ghall khurd block (18.93 q/ha) and lowest in the second cluster of Ferozepur block (17.82 q/ha). The higher grain yield in this block was due to the good status of soil as well as timely sowing of the crop. Technology gap and extension gap was 1.25q/ha and 2.64q/ha respectively. The technology index for Ferozepur district in the chickpea crop was 6.23 per cent. Overall net returns (Rs. 53250) and benefit: cost ratio (8.88) was also higher in demonstration plots as compared to check plots.
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