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The pulse vegetables play vital role in nutritional requirements of the farming community. Due to low level of dissemination of the technologies and adoption of the improved methods of cultivation the productivity of the pulses is low. Hence efforts are required to disseminate the technologies for higher productivity by adopting various extension approaches. Among them frontline demonstrations (FLDs) are the important extension methods to convince the farmers about improved varieties. The present study was conducted to assess the influence of FLDs on yardlong bean (variety Arka Mangala) in Hallakkavalli village in Shivamogga district, Karnataka during 2015–17 by involving 11 small and marginal farmers with an area of 2.50 ha. The mean results of two years revealed that improved technology recorded higher green pod yield of 15.75 tons/ha compared to farmers’ practices (11.50 tons/ha). The technology gap of 9.25, extension gap of 4.25 and technology index of 37.00 were observed during the demonstration period. The improved production technology gave higher benefit-cost ratio in the FLD plots (2.65) as compared to farmers’ plots (1.84).
Yardlong bean, FLDs, farmers’ practices, improved varieties, technology gap, extension gap
