Awareness about FLD and Constraints Faced by Farmers of Demonstrated Groundnut Production Technology

ICAR has started FLD programme through KVK, to accelerate the production of crop. Latest recommended package of practices are demonstrated on farmers field under direct supervision of extension educationist/scientist. The present study was conducted in 4 villages of Deesa taluka where FLDs on groundnut crop were conducted by KVK. Groundnut is one of the most important crops among the different oilseed crops grown in Gujarat. Cent per cent beneficiary farmers were having medium to high level of awareness about the front line demonstration. On the other side 67.14 per cent of non-beneficiary farmers had medium to high level of awareness about front line demonstration. There was significant difference between beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers with regard to their awareness about front line demonstration. The main constraints perceived by the beneficiary farmers were; non remunerative price for groundnut, high cost of inputs viz., seeds, fertilizers and chemicals, timely unavailability of inputs, poor marketing facility and can not stored farm production for long period to fetch high price.