Performance and impact of JG-12, an improved variety of chickpea under rainfed conditions in a Kymore plateau and Satpura hills Agro-climatic zone of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

To study the comparative performance and impact of newly released chickpea variety JG 12, On Farm Trials (OFT) were conducted under rainfed conditions during rabi season of 2015-16 and 2016-17 at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Seoni, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh – India. Seoni comes under the Kymore Plateau and Satpura Hills Agro-climatic zones of Madhya Pradesh. The OFTs were conducted at different five locations of KVK, Seoni to demonstrate production potential and economic benefits of improved technologies for chickpea crop. Chickpea (cicer aeritinum) is one of most important pulse crop which is grown in rabi season. Farmers practice kept as check for comparing the performance of chickpea yield and economic returns. Results of OFT revealed that chickpea variety JG 12 was equally good performers with respective average seed yield 16.35 q/ha under recommended practice while, minimum seed yield 11.02 q/ha was observed in farmers practice. Further, mean of the technology gap was 3.65 q/ha and mean extension gap was 5.34 q/ha. Whereas, technology index was observed 18.25 during the assessment period. The economic performance of chickpea cultivation were showed maximum B:C ratio 3.15 and 2.70 B:C under recommended practice while minimum B:C ratio 2.24 and 1.99 were noted in farmers practice during 2015-16 and 2016-17, respectively.