Author(s):

KC Meena, Nupur Sharma and BL Meena

Abstract: Mustard is one of the important oilseeds crop and occupies a major position among oilseed in Rajasthan state. Indian government imports large quantity of palm oils to fulfill domestic requirement of oils. In this regard, to sustain this production and consumption system, the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare had sanctioned the project “Cluster Frontline Demonstrations on Rabi Pulses 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18’’ to ICAR-ATARI, Jodhpur through National Mission on Oilseed and Oil Palm. This project was also implemented by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sawai Madhopur with main objective to boost the production and productivity of oilseeds through CFLDs with latest and specific technologies. CFLDs on mustard crop were conducted by KVK, Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan was purposively assessed. The performance of frontline demonstrations and the change in adoption level was measured in the study. Cluster Frontline demonstrations on mustard were conducted by using variety NRCDR-2 and Giriraj in an area of 100 ha at 225 farmer’s field in different clusters of Sawaimadhopur district. The need based critical inputs provided to farmers were improved seed @ 4 kg/ha, soil treatment with quenolphas 1.5%@25kg/ha seed treatment with mencozeb @ 2.0 g/ kg seed and imidachloprid4 48%FS @ 7ml gm/kg seed, application of sulpher@40kg/ha. Recommended doses of fertilizers, plant protection measures and other practices (PoP) were applied by farmers. Results were concluded that average increased in yield of demonstrations plots was 25.11% over control plots. The same trend found in case of average gross and net monetary returns of CFLDs, was Rs. 71519/- and Rs. 52527/- and for control Rs. 56724/- and Rs. 36403/- per hectare, respectively. The average benefit cost ratio was recorded higher in demonstration plots (2.79) as compared to control plots (2.06).This improvement in yield might be due to the use of improved seed, soil treatment, seed treatment, use of fertilizers, timely weed and water management and integrated pest management practices. The findings of the study also revealed that they had increase in adoption level ranging from 13.33 percent of storage and marketing to 40.89 percent of seed treatment after conducting the CFLDs. It can be concluded that the CFLDs is playing one of the important role in motivating the farmers for adoption of production technology resulting in increasing their yield and profit. It can be also concluded that the oilseed production could be enhanced by encouraging the farmers through adoption of recommended technologies which were followed in cluster frontline demonstrations.

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