Augmenting income through front line demonstrations in district Ramban

Abstract

The present research study was conducted in selected villages of district Ramban to find out the increase in yield and income of the farming community as a result of FLDs on French bean and Maize laid out in farmers fields with the high yielding, Hybrid and Composite varieties provided by KVK-Ramban. The result of 60 FLDs on French bean reveal that the b:c ratio was much higher 2.38 as compared to the local varieties having a b:c ratio of 1.97. Similarly the results of 100 FLDs on Maize reveal that average yield of demo plots were 26.5 qtls/ha as compared to 18.2 qtls/ha of check i. e local varieties used by the farmers. The increase in the yield by the varieties provided under FLDs was about 45.60 percent over local ones. Accordingly the benefit cost ratio calculated was much higher for FLDs (1.9) as compared to check (1.6).