Impact of Front Line Demonstration on Vegetable Pea Yield Improvement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Front Line Demonstration for Improvement Vegetable Pea Production

Abstract

Vegetable pea (Pisum sativum L) is an important and nutritive legume vegetable crop. Low productivity and poor returns from market due to non-adoption of improved varieties and recommended package of practices by vegetable pea growers of the district. Krishi Vigyan Kendra Deoria and Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kushinagar, ICAR–IIVR Varanasi, conducted front line demonstrations (FLDs) comprised use of improved variety, recommended spacing, balanced fertilizers application and plant protection measures. The result revealed that an average yield of demonstrated vegetable pea variety Kashi Udai was noticed 95.3 q/ha which was 22.79 % higher than the farmers existing practice yield i.e., 76.4 q/ha. Average Net return and BC ratio were recorded Rs. 157695.00 and 4.2:1 from demonstrations whereas Rs. 119065.00 and 3.6:1 from existing local practices of farmers. As a result, it may be concluded that the yield and net return increased considerably with improved variety of vegetable pea and recommended agro-practices.

Keywords: Vegetable pea, Kashi Udai, recommended agro- practices