Impact of Front Line Demonstration on Sesamum Crop in Lalitpur District of Bundelkhand Region

The cluster front line demonstrations on Sesamum were conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Lalitpur during 2017–18 to 2018–19 during kharif season. All the 200 demonstrations on Sesamum were carried out on 80 ha by the active participation of farmers. Farmers were selected and in demonstration plots seed was treated with thiram fungicide @2g/kg seed. In improved package of practices, good quality seed, recommended seed rate @5 kg/ha, recommended NPK fertilizer (30:15:0) and sulphur 25 kg/ha, timely sowing, effective plant protection and manual weed management and monitoring the farmers field time to time during cropping season were demonstrated. The maximum yield was obtained under demonstrated plots 4.5 and 3.25q/ha during 2017–18 and 2018–19, respectively. The per cent increase in yield over farmers’ practices was 60.71 and 47.72 per cent during 2017–18 and 2018–19, respectively. The benefit to cost (B:C) ratio for demonstration was 2.9 and 3.4 and farmers’ plots were 2.1 and 2.5 during 2017–18 and 2018–19, respectively.