1Regional Research Sub Station (OAZ), Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mathurapur-732 202, Malda, West Bengal, India.
Malda Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Block Seed Farm, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Ratua-732 205, Malda, West Bengal, India.
*Corresponding Author: Paramita Bhowmik, Malda Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Block Seed Farm, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Ratua-732 205, Malda, West Bengal, India, Email: paramita.bhowmik2@gmail.com
Online Published on 06 January, 2023.
There are significant gaps in yields of pulses among potential, demonstration and farmers’ plots in West Bengal. This is mostly due to adoption of traditional local varieties and poor cultivation practices.
The yield, technology and extension gaps were studied on improved varieties of lentil, chickpea and field pea during rabi seasons of 2017/18–2020/21 in 80 hectare area of Malda, West Bengal with 205 farmers.
The highest and lowest magnitude of technology index (TI) was observed in field pea var. IPFD-10-12 (44.5%) during 2018/19 and in lentil var. KL-320 (30.1%) during 2020/21. Among lentil varieties, the highest benefit cost ratio was obtained from KL-320 (2.87) whereas in case of chickpea, it was obtained from NBEG-49 (2.90). For field pea var. IPFD-10-12 the benefit cost ratio was 2.70. Maximum and minimum extension yield gaps were observed in field pea var. IPFD-10-12 (451 kg ha−1) during 2018/19 and in lentil var. IPL-406 (145 kg ha−1) during 2018/19. Overall assessment reflects lentil var. KL-320, chickpea variety NBEG-49 and field pea variety IPFD-10-12 have good potentiality and most suitable for this region. So, it is hypothesized that improved farm technology has enormous potential to scale up pulse productivity through cluster front line demonstration (CFLD).
CFLD, Chickpea, Extension gap, Field pea, Lentil, Productivity, Technology gap, Technology index
