Impact of FLD Intervention on Yield, Adoption and Horizontal Spread of Oilseed Crops in Pali District of Rajasthan, India

Abstract

In arid zone old varieties and poor management practices leads to the failure
of oilseed crops facing heavy losses to the farmers. Introduction of better varieties with
the adoption of scientific cultivation can help to solve this problem. To prove this theory
frontline demonstrations (FLDs) were conducted in Pali district for sesame and mustard
crop during 2017-2020 on farmer’s field according to package of practices recommended
for this zone, farmers practice also taken as control to evaluate the performance of FLDs
in cluster. The results revealed that there was a significant raise in yield of mustard
over the control by 47.00% and sesame by 46.00% respectively. Front line demonstrations
recorded higher mean net return (Rs. 39762.50 ha-1) with higher benefit ratio (2.86) under
improved technologies of mustard as compared to local checks. In sesame also higher
mean net return (Rs. 18655.73 ha-1) with higher benefit ratio (2.06) under improved
technologies was recorded as compared to local checks. Therefore, the stakeholders who
are engaged in transfer of agriculture technologies on farmer’s field should pay more
attention conducting frontline demonstrations (FLDs) extensively in cluster approach for
enhancing productivity potential of and to make rapid spread of flagship technologies.