Ensuring productivity advantages through Cluster Frontline Demonstrations (CFLD)-pulses: Nationwide experiences

ATAR SINGH; A K SINGH; S K DUBEY; V P CHAHAL; RANDHIR SINGH; ANUPAM MISHRA; RAJBIR SINGH; B C DEKA; S K SINGH; S S SINGH; LAKHAN SINGH; A K TRIPATHI; Y G PRASAD; ANJANI KUMAR; M J CHANDRA GOWDA; SADHNA PANDEY; RAJEEV SINGH

doi:10.56093/ijas.v93i5.103296

Authors

ATAR SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
A K SINGH ICAR, KAB-1, Pusa, New Delhi
S K DUBEY ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
V P CHAHAL ICAR, KAB-1, Pusa, New Delhi
RANDHIR SINGH ICAR, KAB-1, Pusa, New Delhi
ANUPAM MISHRA ICAR-ATARI, Jabalpur
RAJBIR SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
B C DEKA ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
S K SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
S S SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
LAKHAN SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
A K TRIPATHI ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
Y G PRASAD ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
ANJANI KUMAR ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
M J CHANDRA GOWDA ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
SADHNA PANDEY ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India
RAJEEV SINGH ICAR-Agriculture Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208 002, India

https://doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v93i5.103296

Keywords:

CFLD-Pulses, Sustainable Yield Index (SYI), Yield advantages

Abstract

The present study is the analysis of large scale data (31949 ha area and 79873 farmers) generated through the CFLD on pulses across the major pulses growing states under the ICAR-ATARIs of Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Pune (Maharashtra), Patna (Bihar), Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), Guwahati (Assam), Shillong (Meghalaya), Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Patna (Bihar). The pulse crops included in this analysis were from all three growing seasons: kharif (pigeonpea-5556 ha, blackgram-6067 ha, and greengram-2689 ha), rabi (chickpea-8376 ha, lentil-3747 ha and field pea-1890 ha), and summer (greengram-3624 ha). The average performance data of CFLD were obtained for the above states for all the crops representing all three growing seasons during the cropping seasons of 2016–17 and 2017–18. Thus, CFLD data were analyzed from
across minimum of 21 states (greengram) and maximum of 24 states (blackgram). The major variables analyzed were average yield obtained from the check plots and demonstrations plots. These yields were computed for yield advantages and also compared with the reported district level, state level, national level yields and the potential yields of the respective crops in the given states (data procured from secondary sources for the year 2017–18). Accordingly, the yield advantages (absolute as well as per cent) at various level were analyzed and their degree of variation was computed for all the crops across the seasons. The paper brings out the results of above analyses in objective manner.

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