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Impact on Cluster Frontline Demonstrations on the Productivity of Mustard
(Brassica juncea)
Laxman Prasad Balai
1*
, Navab Singh
2
and D. R. Sharma
3
1
Dept. of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Kishangarh-Bas (Alwar), Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner,
Rajasthan (301 405), India
2
Dept. of Extension Educaton, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dholpur, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner, Rajasthan
(328 001), India
3
Dept. of Hortculture, College of Agriculture, Baseri–Dholpur, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner, Rajasthan
(328 027), India
1. Introducton
Major oilseed producing countries in the world, which are China, Canada,
India, the USA, Brazil and Argentna account for 82% of oilseed producton
in the world (Reddy and Emmanuel, 2017). The oilseeds account for one-
third of the oil produced in India. Suitable agro-climatc conditons favour
cultvaton of all nine major oilseed crops (seven edible oils are Sunfower,
Rape seed and Mustard, Groundnut, Sesamum, Soybean, Safower, Niger
and two are non-edible, Castor and Linseed). The limited scope of bringing
additonal area under oilseeds an increased in producton will have to
income primarily from land saving to technology lightng (Choudhary and
Suri, 2014). Among oilseed crops, mustard (Brassica juncea) is the third
Article History
RECEIVED on 15
th
May 2021 RECEIVED in revised form on 09
th
August 2021 ACCEPTED in fnal form on 21
st
August 2021
CFLDs, oilseeds, producton, yield, gap, adopton, mustard Keywords:
Cluster frontline demonstratons (CFLDs) are the long-term educatonal actvity
conducted in a logical method on partner farmer’s feld to show the worth of
new technology under micro farming. The present investgaton was carried out
during the Rabi season (October to March) of respectve year 2016-17 to 2019-20
under the Natonal Food Security Mission, Government of India. Four hundred
thirteen CFLDs were conducted in 165.2 ha area with the farmers and scientsts
of KVK. The CFLDs were conducted at adopted ffeen villages of Dholpur district.
Cultvaton technology was applied under CFLDs included scientfc interventon.
The highest yield was obtained in demonstrated practces (DP) with an average of
2272.00 kg ha
-1
as compared to farmer practce (FP) with an average of 1829.00
kg ha
-1
. Further, an average additonal return (` 16,063.6), efectve gain (`
14,335.8), net return (` 64,512.1 ha
-1
) and beneft-cos rato (3.49) were found
in the DP as compared to farmer practce. An average occurrence of Alternaria
blight, white rust, stem rot, aphid were recorded 27.44, 5.93 and 14.85 and
25.05, respectvely showed in DP as compared to farmer practce. An average
extension gap, technology gap and technology index between and was noted
443.0 kg ha
-1
, 234.75 kg ha
-1
and 10.39%, respectvely. The results indicate that
the use of scientfc interventon under CFLDs to increase the producton and
proftability of Mustard.
Abstract
Laxman Prasad Balai
e-mail: laxmanbhu08@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Open Access
Citaton: Balai et al., 2021. Impact on Cluster Frontline
Demonstrations on the Productivity of Mustard
(Brassica juncea). International Journal of Bio-resource
and Stress Management 2021, 12(4), 295-302.
HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.23910/1.2021.2360c.
Copyright: © 2021 Balai et al. Tis is an open access
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Data Availability Statement: Legal restrictions are
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use of the data outside of the original study.
Confict of interests: Te authors have declared that
no confict of interest exists.
Acknowledgement: Te authors are highly thankful to
the Dept.of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farm welfare,
Government of India, under NFSM scheme through
its nodal agency the Director, ICAR-ATARI, Zone-II,
Jodhpur, Rajasthan fnancial support to meet the
expenses towards CFLDs and farmers who always show
faith in the KVK, Dholpur. We are also thankful to the
host organization Director, DEE, Sri Karan Narendra
Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur (Rajasthan).
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