Frontline Demonstrations Impact on Production of Pulses in Gujarat

Over the last one and half decades, the area and production of pulses in Gujarat province of India was increased tremendously due to inception of Front Line Demonstrations concept at farmers field. Field demonstration is a long term educational activity conducted in a systematic manner at farmers fields to show worth of a new technology on seeing is believing idea. Traditional or farmers practices are no longer sustainable towards pulses production as it shows unambiguous gap between traditional and scientific production technologies. This book therefore, provides the existing yield gap among different technologies and their cost of production. Four different options viz., developmental, bringing additional area under pulses, improved seed replacement ratio and positive policy support required to boost the pulses production. Constant efforts are needed to bridge this gap through transfer of technology. To make stronger the extension services for educating the cultivators in the implementation of improved technology with availability of quality seed in time is the need of hour. Proper market support is must to augment the same.

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Mr. Tara Chand Poonia has obtained his degree in Master of Agronomy in 1998. Since then he has worked in a watershed research project. He published a book 'Fundamentals of watershed management technology', 13 research papers in scientific journals, 36 popular articles/ symposia papers and currently working on chickpea and pigeonpea as an Agronomist