Intervention of farmers’ centric technologies on production and profitability of off season vegetables in Uttarakhand

Abstract

The impact of farmers’ friendly technologies revealed that introduction and demonstration of high yielding hybrids and varieties, proper nutrient and pest management resulted in enhancement of production and profitability. The results of the demonstrations indicated that Indra hybrid of capsicum fetched 135q/ha average yield, GS-385 hybrid of cauliflower gave 263.40q/ha, Shivay hybrid of tomato obtained 316.00 q/ha, GS-10 variety of vegetable pea recorded 142.00 q/ha and Falguni variety of French bean received 134.50 q/ha average yield when they grew under proper nutrient and pest management. They resulted in 55.81 to 85.51% higher in yield in the demonstrations over farmer's field. Similarly, the net income of capsicum was Rs 367735/ha, cauliflower manifested Rs. 368390/ha, tomato exhibited Rs. 315195/ha, vegetable pea resulted Rs. 174220/ha and French bean received Rs. 231680/ha. The summary of field demonstrations indicated that the total of about Rs. 665.68 crores additional income may be earned from commercial cultivation of these five vegetables as an off season in hills of Uttarakhand.