Scaling mungbean production in rainfed agroecology of Rajasthan in India through frontline demonstrations

This study assessed the impact of frontline demonstrations (FLDs) on mungbean during Rabi 2010 to 2016 in the Pali district of western Rajasthan, in which 120 participant farmers and 120 non-participant farmers were selected through stratified random sampling. Results revealed that the yield advantage up to 66.30% with incremental benefit: cost ratio (IBCR) of 3.56 with increased knowledge level to the extent of 48.31% in case of participant farmers together with high (74.16%) to medium (21.27%) to low (04.27%) adoption (against low grain yield, low return, low knowledge level and medium (18.35%) to low (79.17%) extent of adoption in case of non-participating farmers). The results of regression analysis revealed that level of knowledge with some socio-personal, psychological and communication variables among respondent farmers indeed helped in contributing to extent of adoption of improved technology amongst farming community. This could be seen as positive indicators for formulating and disseminating, more extensive, technology specific and farmer centric FLD programme to improve overall knowledge and adoption amongst farmers in the region to boost pulse production.