Gap Analysis and Economics of Front Line Demonstrations in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under Humid South Eastern Plain Zone of Rajasthan

Abstract

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the premier pulse crop of the Indian subcontinent. India is the largest chickpea producer as well as consumer in the world. In India, chickpea covers an acreage of 10.56 mha contributing 11.38 mt of production with an average productivity of 1078 kg ha -1 during 2017-18 (Anonymous, 2019). Chickpea production has gone up from 3.65 to 10.56 mt from 1950-51 to 2017-18 and productivity steadily increased to 1078 kg ha -1 from 482 kg ha -1 (Anonymous, 2019). In India, the leading chickpea producing states are Madhya Pradesh,

Gap Analysis and Economic Viability of Front-line Demonstrations in Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea L.) under Hyper Arid Partial Irrigated Zone of Rajasthan

“…Based on economics, additional cost, additional returns, effective gain and incremental B:C ratios were calculated. These economic parameters were analyzed using the formulae given below (Shivran et al, 2020):…”

“…Although, no gap was noticed for the farming situations and field preparation. These gaps noticed at the farmers' field are ascribed to the slow pace of extension machineries, coupled with unreached public extension system, poor accessibility of advanced or improved agro-technologies especially among smallholder farmers and other vulnerable groups (Shivran et al, 2020;Babu et al, 2013;Reddy and Swanson, 2006). Further, farmers used local or old varieties of low yield potential instead of newly released varieties with improper application of improved recommended package technologies.…”

“…Further, farmers used local or old varieties of low yield potential instead of newly released varieties with improper application of improved recommended package technologies. The gap further aggravated due to non-availability of good quality seed well in advance at the time of sowing and lack of awareness were also some of the other important reasons for low productivity at farmer's field (Kumari et al, 2007;Shivran et al, 2020).…”

“…. These results envisage that the adoption of improved production technology of mustard cultivation enhanced average yield by 25.89% (Table 2) Average yield (kg ha -1 ) Figure 1: Comparision of demonstration and farmers' practice seed yield with the district and state average yiels of mustrad Shivran et al, 2020 weed management, balanced application of fertilizer and timely control of pest and disease at economic threshold level. Gangwar and Katiyar (2017) showed that the yield of mustard increased from 15.16 to 17.37 percent over farmers' practice during the demonstration period from 2013-14 to 2015-16.…”

Gap analysis and economics of front line demonstrations in moth bean [Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal] under rainfed conditions of Rajasthan

“…The yield data were collected from both the demonstration plots and farmers' practice by random crop cutting methods and analyzed by using simple statistical tools. The Technology yield gap, extension yield gap and technology index were calculated using following formulae (Shivran et al, 2020) [22] given as under:…”