Initiatives of krishi vigyan kendra (KVK) in doubling of farmers income: A case study of village sagoon, jammu

The study was conducted in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir state to assess the impact of KVK interventions. Situation analysis revealed that majority of the farmers lacked knowledge about improved varieties and practices of cereals, pulses and oilseed crops which contributes for higher productivity. KVK conducted frontline demonstrations and capacity building programmes to built the confidence of the stakeholders in order to shift them from traditional Maize-wheat cropping system to pulses and oilseed based cropping system. The adoption of hybrid maize seed and line sowing helped the farmers to obtain 36 percent more grain yield and an additional income of Rs. 6446 per hectare. Cultivation of pulses and oilseeds helped the farmers to fetch an additional income of Rs. 40,800 and 6100 per ha, respectively. Moreover, demonstrations of proven technologies of wheat helped the farmers to fetch more yield per unit area. Overall, the KVK activities opens new horizons and helped farmers to think differently than the routine cultivation of traditional crops namely maize-wheat.