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| Cultivation of short duration Soybean (JS-9305)- A strategy against drought | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
District Chhatarpur is enlisted by planning commission as one of the most disadvantaged district out of 150 districts of the country. The major identified problems of the district are poor seed replacement rate, major area under rainfed farming, uneconomic and poor animal breed, poor value addition processing and poor infrastructure. Team of KVK Chhatarpur started their work from March 2007.It was the time when district was facing severe drought from two years (Table 1) |
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| Table 1: Rainfall data of district Chhatarpur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| During 2007-08 KVK Chhatarpur adopted Sukwa village .The total available land of the village is 1199 ha.Main source of irrigation is well/tube well. Total area in Kharif is 651 ha. Soybean is taken on 140 ha It is one of the major oilseed crops after sesame. Through PRA it was noticed that farmers are growing long duration variety JS-335 (rainfed).Though the yield potential of the variety is 25-30 q/ha but due to drought or long dry spell farmers were facing loss up to the extent of 30-35%.It is due to non availability of water during pod filling stage. To avoid further time loss KVK prepared s contingent plan for the area. One of the major points of intervention was varietals replacement to obtain required seed replacement rate (Table 2). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Table 2: District profile of seed replacement rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Intervention of KVK :- KVK introduced the short duration variety JS-9305 to escape the drought/long dry spell during pod filling stage .The yield potential of the variety is 20-25 quintal having maturity period of 90-95 days. Through seed villages programme variety was given 146 farmers covering 29.0 ha along with front line demonstration. Result:-During the year 2008-09 the result was not so prominent as there was above normal rainfall (1518 mm).Farmer achieved only 12.5 % higher yield over their own practice. it was due to loss from long dry spell at the time of pod filling stage. But in the year (2009-10) again there was less precipitation. Under this condition spread of short duration variety was in 1000 ha of the village Yield obtain by farmers is 12-15 quintals against the 10-12 q/ha from old variety. In the current Kharif season variety has captured 1000 h area of the village. This shows the viability of the technique i.e. replacement of variety JS-335 by JS-9305 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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