Vol. 12, Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Modi DJ, Vasava HM, Patel MM and Patil LM

Abstract:
As per mandate of ICAR, KVK Bharuch is being conducting front line demonstrations every year to increase awareness among farmers of districts for different high yielding varieties released by Agriculture universities as well as from various research institutes which are helpful to them for increasing income. During year 2018-19 & 2019-20 by seeing the interest and demand from farmers decided to introduce new varieties of onion i.e. Bhime Shakti and Bhima Kiran released by Directorate of Onion & Garlic Research Station Rajgurunagar Pune. Farmers of Valia, Netrang, Ankleshwar and Zagadiya block of Bharuch districts were selected who are involved in Onion cultivation since long by using local variety who is yielding small bulb size with low yield resulting very low income which was not sufficient to meet out the invested amount. In the beginning awareness training was conducted for motivation and to disseminate information on standard package of practices. As a support saplings of both the varieties were given to selected farmers. The result showed an increase in the average yield of Bhima Shakti (35.55 t/ha), followed by variety Bhima Kiran (33.2 t/ha) compare to the local check (26.85 t/ha) of onion crop. There was a positive impact on the yield of onion crop, by replacing local varieties with improved varieties such as Bhima Shakti and Bhima Kiran as well as by adopting scientific package of practices. The economic analysis of the data revealed that Bhima Shakti variety has higher gross returns (Rs. 1,77,750/ha) with net returns (Rs. 1,20,715/ha) and B:C ratio (3:12) followed by variety Bhima Kiran higher gross returns (Rs. 1,66,000/ha) with net returns (Rs. 1,09,955/ha) and B:C ratio (2:96) as compared to local variety.