Productivity enhancement of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) through front line demonstration in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

Frontline demonstrations were conducted with scientific package and practices in the farmer’s fields located in the Kymore Plateau and Satpura Hill agro climatic zone of Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh to evaluate the performance of wheat variety JW-3336 under during the Rabi season of two consecutive years 2015-16 and 2016-17. The data on yield and economics of demonstrated plots when compared with the farmers cultivating practices revealed that JW-3336 performed superior. JW-3336 with improved production technologies showed increased mean grain yield by 19.57% over existing farmers practices with only Rs. 1675/ha extra expenditure on inputs. In addition to this, the mean extension gap (7.76 q/ha) and mean IBCR (6.03) recorded were sufficiently high to motivate farmers to adopt JW-3336 with the improved wheat production technology.