Yield Gap Study and Impact of Demonstrated Technology in Oilseed Crops in Shivpuri District of Madhya Pradesh

The study was conducted in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh with the objective of assessment on yield gap and impact of demonstrated technology in oilseed crops in the district. In all 108 demonstrations were conducted taking 3 adopted and 2 other villages by KVK during 2007-08 to 2009-10. The study concluded that higher yield un- der demonstrations over the farmers practice was found in case of balance fertilizer application in soybean (38.88%), use of organic inputs in soybean (35.37%), improved variety Pusa Jagnath (33.33%), Pusa Jai Kisan (26.63%) of mustard and TAG 24 (26.67%) of groundnut followed by other demonstrations. Thus, the training to the farmers and participatory front line demonstrations is an effi- cient measure for reducing knowledge gap of farmers, enhancing productivity, generating production data and collection of feedback for large scale adoption of technology.