Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Akanksha Shukla, Prachi Awadhiya, Tarsan Kumar Yadav and Arvind Kumar Bharti

Abstract:
Chickpea is a major agricultural crop in terms of production in Madhya Pradesh (MP). In terms of gram crops production MP ranks highest in productivity in our country, where Vidhisa district ranks first in terms of production. In this comparative study the performance of front line demonstration technology (FLD) and non-front line demonstration (non-FLD) technology of chickpea was found in the total sample size of 60 number of farmers in one block of Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, depending upon some independent variables viz., age, education status, total annual income, farming experience. Farm mechanization, total farm size of chickpea, marketing behavior of chickpea etc. and some dependable variables viz. the adaptation of FLD technology by farmers, adaptation index, sample design, selection of area and respondent, instrument of data collection, method of data collection etc. Although the current study was not carried out in large number of samples in an adequately and comparatively large size of area, it can be concluded that, depending upon the results, FLD technology adopted farmers have more production, productivity, income and several other increased socio-economic parameters over the non-FLD adopted farmers.