Front Line Demonstration on Rice Variety Swarna Shreya by KVK in Katni District of Madhya Pradesh: A Impact Study

Author: Arpita Shrivastava*, R. P. Bain, A. K. Tomar and R. K. Mishra

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Abstract

Rice is one of the oldest cultivated crop and staple food for world’s half population. KVK Katni made an attempt with an objective to substitute existing variety with improved rice variety Swarna Shreya. Front Line demonstrations (FLDs) is a unique approach to provide an direct interface between researcher and farmers as the scientists are directly involved in planning, execution and monitoring of the demonstrations for the technologies developed by them and get direct feedback from the farmers' field about the crops. The FLD on improved variety Swarna Shreya was carried out during the two consecutive years 2018 and 2019 in Village Banda and Jarwahi, Block: Katni of Katni district. Result from the 20 conducted FLD indicated that improved variety Swarna Shreya exhibited mean grain yield 43.70 q/ha which 26.11% higher than the farmer practices. This might be due to knowledge and adopting of improved variety Swarna Shreya coupled with the scientific package of practices. Thus the FLD mi

Keywords

Extension Gap, FLDs, Improved variety, Rice, Technology Gap