National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Cluster Front line demonstrations on soybean variety JS 9560 were organized at 200 farmers field consecutively for two years in kharif seasons of 2016 and 2017 in many adopted villages of dewas district by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dewas. The package of improved practices demonstrated, which included a new variety JS 95-60, integrated nutrient management (@ 20:60:20:20:: N:P2O5:K2O:S kg/ha + rhizobium @ 5g/kg seed + PSB @ 5g/kg of seed), integrated pest management (deep ploughing during April + seed treatment with Trichoderma virdae @ 5g/kg seed + trizophos @ 750 ml/ha) and sowing on ridge and furrow method and Furrow irrigated raised bed method led to higher seed yields (15.29 to 18.29 qt per ha with an average 16.79 qt/ha) as compared to farmers’ practice (12.38 to 14.68 qt per ha with an (average 13.53 qt/ha). This increase over farmers’ practice ranged from 24.59 and 14.29 per cent during kharif 2016 and 2017 respectively. The adoption of improved package of practices, on an average, also resulted in increased gross (by 25.03 %) and net (by 96 %) returns and benefit cost ratio (by 21.7 %) as compared to farmers’ practice.
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