Agricultural Extension Section, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur-208 024, India.
*Present address: Division of Agricultural extension, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012, India. E-mail: skumar710@gmail.com
Impact study was conducted for two participatory projects namely IVLP-TAR (NATP funded) and IFAD (IFAD TAG 532 ICRISAT Project) during 2006–08 among 200 randomly sampled farm families of four villages i.e. Vidokhar, Helapur, Kalauli Tir and Amirta under Hamirpur district of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. Findings showed that there was increasing trends in the productivity and profitability of pulses due to various technological components as compared to pre-project status but with declining and negative rates respectively over the period of four years. Criteria based ranking revealed that farmers preferred more of the improved variety followed by integrated nutrient management, IPM and integrated disease management in that order. Also, simplicity-complexity, immediacy of effect, productivity enhancement and triability were the criteria as perceived by the farmers for rating validated technology for rapid adoption.
Bundelkhand region, Farmer Participatory Research, Impact study
