The impact of front line demonstrations on yield and profitability of chickpea (Cicerarietinum) in the Mahendergarh district of Haryana, India

Pages: 32-35
Ashok Dhillon (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mahendergarh, Haryana)
Nirmal Kumar (Department of Agricultural Economics, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)
Ramesh Kumar (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mahendergarh, Haryana)
Ashish Shivran (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mahendergarh, Haryana)
Sunil Kumar (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirsa, Haryana)
Narender Singh (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mahendergarh, Haryana)

Chickpea is also known as gram, Bengal gram and chana in Hindi. It belongs of family Leguminosae. Chickpea is a source of protein and a major pulse crop for vegetarian in India. The front line demonstration was conducted at 275 farmers’ fields in110 hectare in 9villages to demonstrate production potential and economic benefits of improve technologies which comprised with farmer practices. Wilt tolerant and resistant varieties (CSJ -515) with the seed rate of 60kg/ha, seed treatment and seed inoculation, the balance dose of fertilizers, weed management and plant protection measures. Demonstrations were carried out at the Mahendergarh district of Haryana during three rabi seasons from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Advanced technologies gave elevated yield and recorded signify yield of 1871 kg/ha which was 18.4per cent higher than the farmers’ practice yield1580 kg/ha.The cost of cultivation chickpea under the demonstration gave higher net return with a mean value of Rs. 53797 per hectare as compared to farmers’ practice which was Rs. 43508/ha. The higher average benefit cost ratio 2.83 was found under the demonstration compared to 2.59 under farmers’ practice in the corresponding seasons. The results showed higher yield under the demonstrations plots.