KVK

Front Line Demonstrations

Every year Krishi Vigyan Kendra conducts several demonstrations on farmers fields on technologies released by research institutes, universities. These are mainly related to latest released varieties, agronomic management of crops, methods to control pest & diseases, technologies to increase yields, agri implements to reduce drudgery of women, technologies to reduce cost of production etc.,

The main objective of Front-Line Demonstrations is to demonstrate newly released crop production and protection technologies and its management practices in the farmers’ field under different agro-climatic regions and farming situations. While demonstrating the technologies in the farmers’ field, the scientist to study the factors contributing higher crop production, field constraints of production and thereby generate production data and feedback information. Front-Line Demonstrations are conducted in a block of two or four hectares land in order to have better impact of the demonstrated technologies on the farmers and field level extension functionaries.

List of Approved Front Line Demonstrations for 2023-24

Sl. No.	Crop/ Enterprise	Season	Title of the demonstration	No. of Demonstrations	Area (ha)
1.	Paddy	Kharif	Demonstration of Paddy variety RNR-15048 for rainfed situation	10	4.0
2.	Blackgram	Kharif	Demonstration of pulse booster in Blackgram	15	6.0
3.	Soybean	Kharif	Demonstration of Soybean variety DSb-34	10	4.0
4.	Groundnut	Kharif	Demonstration of Groundnut variety Dh-256	10	4.0
5.	Paddy	Kharif	Enhancing soil fertility through green manuring crops in Paddy	10	4.0
6.	Safflower	Rabi	Demonstration of Safflower variety A-2020	10	4.0
7.	Cotton	Kharif/ Rabi	Mating Disruption Technique (SPLAT) for management of pink bollworm in Cotton	10	4.0
8.	Wheat	Rabi	Nutrient management in rainfed Wheat using microbial cultures	10	4.0
9.	Sugarcane	Kharif	Insitu composting of Sugarcane trash using UASD compost culture	20	8.0
10.	Garlic	Kharif	Demonstration of high yielding Garlic variety DWDG-1	5	0.5
11.	Onion	Kharif	Management of twisting disease in Onion	10	4.0
12.	Marigold	Kharif	Demonstration of new Marigold Hybrid-Arka Abhi	5	1.0
13.	Mango	Rabi/ Summer	Integrated crop management in Mango	10	4.0
14.	Tomato	Kharif	Integrated pest management of tomato pin worm (Tuta absoluta)	10	4.0
15.	Chilli	Kharif/ Rabi	Integrated pest and disease management in Red Chilli	10	4.0
16.	Fodder	Kharif	Demonstration of Fodder Cowpea as an intercrop in Fodder Maize as a source of balanced feed in dairy animals	10	2.0
17.	Dairy	-	Management of anestrous by PRID protocol in dairy animals	10	-
18.	Dairy	-	Demonstration of clean milk production in dairy animals	10	-
19.	Millets	Kharif/ Rabi	Demonstration on Millet crop cafeteria and primary processing	5	1.5

Special Programme on Nutri Garden for 2023-24

Sl. No.	Crop/ Enterprise	Title of Programme	No. of Members
1.	Nutri Garden	Demonstration of nutri-farms for year round nutrition security among farm families	30

Campaign on LSD in Cattle for 2023-24

Sl. No.	Enterprise	Title of Programme	No. of Members
1.	Cattle	Campaign on Managemental strategies to control Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in cattle	50