Abstract
Background: The study was carried out to assess the performance of cluster frontline demonstrations (CFLDs) in terms of yield gap and economic analysis of black gram (var. PU-31, SBC-40, IPU- 02-43, SKPD-3) and green gram (Pratap, SGC-20, SGC-16, Samrat) in three states of North East i.e. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Sikkim during 2016-2021 in kharif season. Methods: Krishi Vigyan Kendras of these three states conducted 4038, 2011 demonstrations covering 1460 ha, 630 ha area in black gram and green gram, respectively during 2016-2021 through improved production technology. Out of the total 6049 farmers randomly 2350 farmers were selected for testing their knowledge level and extent of adoption of improved practices by means of a well-structured scheduled. Result: The findings unveiled that in all the three states, average grain yield in demonstration fields were higher than farmer’s practice. Black gram recorded highest demonstration yield (9.83 q/ha) in Sikkim followed by green gram (8.87 q/ha) in Arunachal Pradesh as compared to farmers’ practices (6.64 q/ha) and (5.64 q/ha), respectively. However, Sikkim recorded highest net return of Rs. 86,644/ha in green gram and Rs. 32,328/ha in black gram. It was also observed that majority of farmers from Sikkim adopted most of the improved technologies with 62.33% followed by Assam (53.55%) and Arunachal Pradesh (50.00%) which is highly encouraging.
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