Impact of Maize Front-Line Demonstrations on Knowledge and Adoption of Farmer

Abstract

The main objective of the FLD is to demonstrate newly released crop production and protection technology and its management practices on the farmer‟s field by the scientists themselves before taking it into main extension system of State Department of Agriculture under different agro-climatic regions and in real farming system. Presently the FLDs are mainly conducted through KVKs in all over the country. This is the mandatory function of KVK to remove lack of knowledge and constraints in the adoption of improved soybean production technology. Keeping all these views in mind, the present investigation entitled “Study on knowledge and adoption level of soybean growers through Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs‟) in Ujjain district of M.P.” For this purpose the data collected on a well prepared interview schedule. through personal interview method by the investigator. The major findings of the study is majority of the respondents (beneficiaries of FLD programme and non-beneficiaries) possessed medium level of adoption level. The „t‟ test indicated that there is a significant difference between scores mean of both the group. Thus, it can be stated that, there is an impact of FLD programme on the adoption level of the soybean growers.