Knowledge Level of Beneficiary and Non-beneficiary Farmers of Gram Production Technology

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pratapgarh has conducted 88 front line demonstrations on gram in 35.2 ha. area under real farming situations in 2012 in the farmer's fields of six adopted villages (Avleshwar, Basad, Dalmu, Dhamotar, Manohargarh and Kherot) of Pratapgarh (Raj). All the 6 villages where FLDs were conducted by KVKs were included in the study. The total sample size was 176 consisting of 88 beneficiary and 88 non-beneficiary farmer's. Gram is called chickpea or gram in South Asia and Garbanzo bean in most of the developed world. Gram is a major pulse crop in India, gram is widely appreciated as health food. It is a protein-rich supplement to cerealbased diets, especially to the poor in developing countries, where people are vegetarians or cannot afford animal protein. There was significant difference in existing knowledge of beneficiary and non- beneficiary farmers except to harvesting with respect to gram production technology.