Impact of Front Line Demonstration on Vegetable Pea Yield Improvement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Vegetable pea (Pisum sativum L) is an important and nutritive legume vegetable crop. Low productivity and poor returns frommarketduetonon-adoptionofimprovedvarietiesandrecommendedpackageofpracticesbyvegetablepeagrowers of the district. Krishi Vigyan Kendra DeoriaandKrishiVigyanKendraKushinagar,ICAR–IIVRVaranasi,conducted front line demonstrations (FLDs) compriseduseofimprovedvariety,recommended spacing, balanced fertilizers application and plant protection measures. The result revealed that an average yield of demonstrated vegetable pea variety Kashi Udai was noticed 95.3 q/ha which was 22.79 % higher than the farmers existing practice yield i.e., 76.4 q/ha. Average Net return and BC ratio were recorded Rs. 157695.00 and 4.2:1 from demonstrations whereas Rs. 119065.00 and 3.6:1 from existing local practices of farmers. As a result, it may be concluded that the yield and net return increasedconsiderablywithimprovedvariety of vegetable pea and recommended agro-practices