PERFORMANCE OF RICE VARIETY GOMATI IN FRONT LINE DEMONSTRATION UNDER RAINFED CONDITION OF SOUTH TRIPURA DISTRICT

MANDIRA CHAKRABORTI¹*
¹ICAR - Department Agronomy, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, South Tripura, 799144, Tripura, India
* Corresponding Author : cmandira1@rediffmail.com

Received : 18-11-2016     Accepted : 15-12-2016     Published : 28-12-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 63       Pages : 3555 - 3556
Int J Agr Sci 8.63 (2016):3555-3556

Keywords : Front line demonstration, Extension gap, Technology gap, Technology index, Gomati rice variety
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : The author is highly acknowledge to ICAR, Tripura centre for providing seeds and Zonal Project Directoriate for providing fund to conduct the demonstration
Author Contribution : Author had conducted all the demonstrations in the villages of South Tripura District

A study was conducted by Krishivigyan Kendra South Tripura in South Tripura district of Tripura for three consecutive kharif seasons of 2013,2014 and 2015 to evaluate the performance of rice variety gomati at farmers field under rainfed conditions. Front line demonstration was conducted with scientific package of practices of rice technology. The gomati variety of rice was found superior over farmers’ existing practices with local varieties. Rice variety gomati with improved production technologies followed in FLDs, increased mean grain yield by 41.62% over farmers’ existing practices with only Rs. 1817 ha-1 extra expenditure on inputs. The net return and return per rupee invested were sufficiently high to motivate farmers for adoption of gomati rice variety and improved rice production technologies