Knowledge level of farmers and extent of adoption of improved pigeonpea technologies in KVK adopted villages -An analytical study

Sixty demonstrations on improved pigeonpea technologies were conducted during 2008 to 2012 under Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Adilabad in its adopted villages. To define the impact of FLD's a study was conducted with 100 randomly selected farmers of Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh. The study revealed that, the percent yield increases were observed higher in all aspect of FLD's adopted farmers than that of non adopted. The yield gap between the farmer practices and improved management practices were much higher ranging from 247 to 415 kg/ha. It was found that the overall knowledge index and mean score of adopted and non-adapted farmers were 76.2, 3.7, 50.5 and 2.42 respectively. The adoption index of adopted farmers was also found higher (81.06) than that of non-adopted farmers (48.18). Hence, it is concluded that, KVK has contributed significantly in the improved productivity of pigeonpea in the adopted villages.