FRONT LINE DEMONSTRATION: A TECHNOLOGY TOOL TO ENHANCE THE FRUIT YIELD OF BRINJAL

SUNITA KUSHWAH¹*, SHARDA KUMARI², SUNIL KUMAR SINGH³, MUKESH KUMAR^4
1ICAR - Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Banka, 813102, Bihar
²ICAR - Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Banka, 813102, Bihar
³ICAR - Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Munger, 811201, Bihar
⁴ICAR - Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Munger, 811201, Bihar
* Corresponding Author : sunita17kk@rediffmail.com

Received : 18-07-2016     Accepted : 10-08-2016     Published : 27-10-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 51       Pages : 2372 - 2374
Int J Agr Sci 8.51 (2016):2372-2374

Keywords : Brinjal, Demonstration, Farmers, Field, Front line demonstration, Impact
Academic Editor : Dr Binu Mathew
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : We would like to convey our gratitude to ICAR for providing us funding to conduct this front line demonstration on different locations. The authors are thankful to the Dr A.K. Singh, Vice Chancellor, Dr R. K Sohane, DEE, Dr S K Roy, Director, ATARI, Kolkatta, Dr R. N. Singh ADE, B.A.U, Sabour, Bhagalpur for encouragement and providing facilities to conduct the demonstration.
Author Contribution : Authors conducted trial in their field areas and documented data with exhaustive efforts. All authors contributed in the data analysis, farmer’s feedback and recorded needful information at their own level.

The field experiment was carried out as a on farm trial among 30 farmers with 1 ha areas of brinjal in the year 2015-16. Farmers are not getting good fruit yield of brinjal. The productivity of brinjal crop continues to be quite low due to infestation of disease & insect pest & not proper selection of cultivar of brinjal. The fruit yield of brinjal crop can be increased by the demonstrating the suitable cultivars at the farmers field under the supervision of scientists working in the operational area of KVK. It is observed after trial that farmers were planting brinjal crop as per the recommended practices with suitable cultivar recorded the higher fruit yield as comparison to the farmers practices. The results of the front line demonstration brings out that technology demonstrated is feasible and economic for the farmers and viable over the farmer’s practices. Percentage increase in the average fruit yield is quite high in the low input cost, so the demonstrated technology i.e. cultivar Pant Rituraj is suitable for the vegetable growers of the Banka district of Bihar.