Integrated pest management in paddy-technology performance in farmers’ fields under frontline demonstrations

Frontline demonstrations on integrated pest management in paddy were conducted for three years during Kharif season (2014–2016) in farmers’ fields in three different villages of two Taluks (Turuvekere and Tiptur) in Tumkur district of Karnataka. It was observed that average grain yield performance of 30 demonstrations in an area of 12 ha ranged from 52 to 55 q/ha. There was 25.78 per cent increase in grain yield in integrated pest management (IPM) scheduled fields over non-IPM fields during all the three years of demonstrations besides reducing pest, disease and weeds. In terms of economics also IPM-demonstrated fields were found economically superior with higher B: C ratio of 1: 1.57 as against the lower B: C ratio of 1: 1.38 in non-IPM fields.