Follow up Action and Feedbacks of KVK and Beneficiary Farmers on Front Line Demonstration in Kharif Groundnut Production Technology

To accelerate the production of crop, ICAR has started FLD programme through KVK. Latest recommended package of practices are demonstrated on farmers field under direct supervision of extension educationist / scientist. With a view to know the follow up action and feedback regarding FLD on Kharif groundnut production technology by KVK was under taken. Four villages in Deesa taluka where FLDs on groundnut crop were selected purposively. A total of 70 beneficiary farmers were randomly selected from these four villages. The major follow up action taken by KVK was visit to FLD (100%), but less action carried out for organization of FLD meeting (2.86%) on farmers field. On the other hand the major follow up actions taken by beneficiary farmers were liaison with KVK after FLD and increase area under groundnut (100%), which indicate the accomplishment of FLD process. The feedbacks of the beneficiary farmers were more regarding visit to KVK after the FLD (100%) and 82.85 per cent for contact withs programme coordinator of KVK. The major reason of visit to KVK were gaining the information of improved varieties of various crops (85.71%) with ranked first.