SUMMARY : Convincing the farmers about major advance in agriculture technologies is challenging task for extension personnel and is key adoption of these technologies by the farmers. Taking into account the consideration, frontline demonstrations were carried out in a systematic manner on farmers’ field to show the worth of production technologies and management practices of crops and convincing them about potentialities of improved production technologies and management practices for further adoption. In all 350 FLDs were conducted in year 2009-10 and effectiveness of front line demonstrations in terms of changes in knowledge, attitude and skill among farmers was measured. How to cite this article : Meena, R.P., Meena, B.L., Meena, R.H. and Balai, C.M. (2012). Effectiveness of front line demonstrations in changes in knowledge, attitude and skill among farmers. Agric. Update, 7(3&4): 254-257. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A critical challenge for agricultural extension lies with conveying the major advance in agriculture technologies to farmers efficiently and in a timely manner. Transferring knowledge and information to and inculcating positive attitude in farmers about improved agricultural technologies are keys to agricultural development. For this, several extension approaches have come to play to generate more widespread and rapid agricultural knowledge diffusion and thereby more cost effective approaches to agricultural extension as well. Front Line Demonstration is one such approach that shows the worth of newly released crop production and protection technologies and its management practices and convincing them about their potentialities for further adoption. According to Rogers (1995), this positive impact bridges the gap between what is known and what is effectively put to use by creating better understanding of the sources of new ideas which are then spread to the receivers. Through their own wisdom, farmers are able to make rational decisions about farm practices, whether generated on-station or on-farm (Asiabaka and James, 1999). Effectiveness of Front Line Demonstrations changes in knowledge, attitude and skill among farmers R.P. MEENA, B.L. MEENA, R.H. MEENA AND C.M. BALAI Through these decision making mechanisms, technologies promoted through FLDs can be up- scaled by development workers to a larger population. Front Line Demonstration is the new concept of field demonstration evolved by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research with the inception of the technology mission on oilseed crops during mid-eighties. The field demonstrations conducted under the close supervision of scientists of the National Agriculture Research System are called Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs) because the technologies are demonstrated for the first time by the scientists themselves before being fed into the main extension system of the State Department of Agriculture. The main objective of Front Line Demonstrations is to demonstrate newly released crop production and protection technologies and its management practices in the farmers’ field under different agro-climatic regions and farming situations. While demonstrating the technologies in the farmers’ field, the scientist are required to study the factors contributing higher crop production, field constrains of production and thereby generate production data and feedback information. Front Line Demonstrations are Author for correspondence : R.P. MEENA Krishi Vigyan Kendra (M.P.U.A.&T.), RAJSAMAND (RAJASTHAN) INDIA Email: kvkrjsd@yahoo. co.in HIND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE See end of the article for authors’ affiliations ARTICLE CHRONICLE : Received: 28.05.2012; Revised : 14.08.2012; Accepted: 15.09.2012 U Research Article KEY WORDS : Front line demonstrations, Knowledge, Attitude, Skill Agriculture Update Volume 7 | Issue 3 & 4 | August & November, 2012 | 254-257 A