Impact of Front Line Demonstration on Integrated Crop Management (ICM) in Turmeric in Adilabad district of Telangana

Author: M. Sunil Kumar*, Y. Praveen Kumar, A. Posadri, A. Ramadevi, M. Raghuveer and G. Shivacharan

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Abstract

The KVK, Adilabad had under taken the study to popularize the Integrated Crop Management (ICM) in Turmeric for efficient use of natural resources and minimizing the pest and disease for harvesting bumper yields and income. Cultivating turmeric by conventional flat bed method in the region leads to poor drainage, more pest and disease incidence and recording low yields. In order to disseminate the improved production technologies for reaping higher returns from turmeric cultivation conducted Front Line Demonstrations during 2019-20 to 2020-21 in different villages of Adilabad district of Telangana. The proven extension strategic approaches (focused group discussion, method demonstration, off and on campus training programmes, field visits, exposure visits) and need based package of practices (timely sowing, seed treatment, raised bed dimensions, different plant protection measures etc.) resulted higher yield in demonstrations (74.67qha-1 ) over check (56.20qha-1). There is an average

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Turmeric, Raised bed cultivation, black cotton soils, drainage, Yield, Economics.