Productivity, Profitability and Yield Gap Analysis in Chickpea under Front Line Demonstration in Tungabhadra Command Area of Koppal District

Front line demonstration in chickpea is to demonstrate and popularize the improved agro-technology on farmers’ fields of Koppal District under varied existing farming situations for effective transfer of generated technology and fill the gap between improved technology and adopted/indigenous technology to enhance the productivity. The average productivity of chickpea is low due to lack of improved agrotechnology, mostly grown under rainfed conditions and vulnerable attack of pests and diseases causing huge production losses. Therefore, in order to conduct/create awareness of front-line demonstration with improved agrotechnology’s for higher productivity and profitability in rabi chickpea.

ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Koppal (Karnataka) was conducted frontline demonstrations (FLD) for two consecutive years during Rabi seasons of 2021-22 and 2022-23 at farmer’s fields of Koppal district of Karnataka state. The data on productivity, yield gap analysis, per cent disease index and economics in demonstrated plots (DP) were compared with existing farmer’s practice (FP).

Two-year results concluded that 19.13 per cent yield increment was observed in the demonstration plot as compared to existing farmers practices. Use of improved methods of chickpea cultivation can reduce the technology gap to a considerable extent thus leading to increased productivity and profitability of farmers in the Koppal district under Northern Dry Zone of Karnataka.