Introduction of new variety of Indian bean through front line demonstration in Bharuch district of Gujarat

Abstract

A preliminary survey was conducted by KVK, Bharuch to gather information on problems faced by Indian bean growers of Bharuch district. It was found that farmers prefer to use local variety and due to, which production of the crop is not up to the mark. Local variety is creeper habit, so labour cost is more for cutting of wines as well as intercultural operation are difficult. To overcome this problem in 2018-19 and 2019-20, Front Line Demonstration (FLD) of Indian bean variety GNIB-21 was conducted by KVK, Bharuch at 50 tribal farmer’s field to evaluate the performance at farmer’s field. The study revealed that GNIB-21 variety has performed superior over local variety check with respect to pod yield, gross returns, net returns and B: C ratio.