Year : 2022, Volume : 12, Issue : 3
First page : ( 61) Last page : ( 65)
Print ISSN : 2229-3744. Online ISSN : 2250-0499. Published online : 2022 September 12.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2250-0499.2022.00074.X

Resource Conserving Technology (RCT) in Wheat: A Promising Better Option in Samba District of Jammu and Kashmir

Sinha Abhay Kumar^*, Sharma Neerja, Gupta Saurav

ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra (SKUAST-Jammu), Samba184121Jammu and Kashmir, India

^*Email for correspondence: abhaysinha.1995@gmail.com

Online Published on 12 September, 2022.

Received:  27  ,  2022; Accepted:  06  ,  2022.

Abstract

Thirty frontline demonstrations each were conducted during rabi season of 2019-20 and 2020-21 to evaluate zero tillage for wheat sowing with an objective to improve farm productivity and efficiency in Samba district, J&K. The present study was conducted with the specific objective to analyze the economic impact of resource conservation technology (zero tillage) as compared to the conventional tillage practices on wheat cultivation in the district. The study revealed that there was significant impact of conservation practice; 17.66 per cent human labour, 54.63 per cent machine labour, 20 per cent seed cost and 33 per cent irrigation water were saved with zero tillage as compared to the conventional tillage method of wheat. There was a wide yield gap between the potential, demonstration and farmers’ yields of wheat mainly due to the technology gaps. The average yield of demonstration plots was 24.50 and 26.90 q/ha as compared to 19.30 and 21.90 q/ha in farmers’ plots in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 respectively. On overall average basis, 25.70 per cent higher grain yield was recorded under demonstration plots as compared to the farmers’ plots (26.20 q/ha). The technological yield gap varied to the extent of 23.10 to 25.50 q/ha. The net return in zero tillage of wheat production was higher by 27.42 per cent as compared to the conventional method. B-C ratio under zero tillage was 3.43 while under conventional method it was only 2.21. Therefore zero tillage was economically feasible. The yield gap analysis emphasizes the need to educate the farmers for adoption of the resource conservation technologies to revert the trend of wide extension gap.

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Keywords

Zero tillage, Broadcasting, Technology gap, Net return, B-C ratio, Yield.

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