Yield enhancement in sorghum through frontline demonstrations

Frontline demonstrations were conducted to demonstrate the yield enhancement through improved variety of sorghum with integrated crop management practices in the fields of ten farmers of Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu during Kharif season of 2015–16. The improved sorghum variety CO 30 was grown with recommended package of practices and compared with the farmers’ practice. The results indicated that the higher grain yield (2380 kg/ha) was recorded in the demonstrations compared to 1950 kg/ha in farmers’ practice. Thus there was an increase of 22.6 per cent in demonstrations over farmers’ practice. The higher net income (Rs 14745/ha) was realised in demonstrations as compared to farmers’ practice (Rs 9228/ha). Adoption of improved package of practices in sorghum cultivation under demonstration plots also recorded higher benefit-cost ratio (1.65) as compared to farmers’ practice (1.44).