Frontline demonstration: A tool and boon for boosting the soybean production

Frontline demonstrations on soybean were carried out on the farmers ’fields during kharif seasons of 2010–11 to 2015–16, the study revealed that improved practice gave 24.14 q/ha average seed yield whereas, farmers ’practice gave 20.68 q/ha. The per cent increase in yield with improved practice over farmers ’practice was 16.70%. The technology gap, extension gap and technology index ranged between 4.05–10.58 q/ha, 2.21–5.41 q/ha and 13.50–35.27%, respectively. Net returns and benefit: cost ratio was higher with improved practice (39, 485/ha and 2.39, respectively) than in the farmers ’practice (33, 234/ha and 2.30, respectively). Improved practice gave 6, 251/ha higher net returns than the farmers practice which accounts 18.81% more than farmers practice.