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Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour

Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour established on 5th August, 2010 is a basic and strategic institution supporting more than 500 researchers and educationist towards imparting education at graduate and post graduate level, conducting basic, strategic, applied and adaptive research activities, ensuring effective transfer of technologies and capacity building of farmers and extension personnel. The university has 6 colleges (5 Agriculture and 1 Horticulture) and 12 research stations spread in 3 agro-ecological zones of Bihar. The University also has 21 KVKS established in 20 of the 25 districts falling under the jurisdiction of the University. The degree programmes of the university and its colleges have been accredited by ICAR in 2015-16. The university is also an ISO 9000:2008 certified organisation with International standard operating protocols for maintaining highest standards in teaching, research, extension and training.VisionThe Bihar Agricultural University was established with the objective of improving quality of life of people of state especially famers constituting more than two third of the population. Having set ultimate goal of benefitting society at large, the university intends to achieve it by imparting word-class need based agricultural education, research, extension and public service.

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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Kumar, Randhir × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2016 ×
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    Techno-economic Analysis of Lentil Production in Mokama Tal of Bihar State
    (Department of Extension Education, BAU, Sabour, 2017-08) Kumar, Randhir; Panda, Chandan Kumar
    Pulses are important sources of protein, high in fiber content and provide ample quantity of vitamins and minerals. Keeping in view large benefits of pulses for human health, the United Nations had proclaimed 2016 as the International Year of Pulses. Bihar is one of the important states in India for pulse production. Amongst the different pulses, lentil is one of the important pulse crops for Bihar. Demand of lentil in Bihar is also high. So, it becomes imperative to study technology and economic aspects of lentil cultivation/production to match the requirement of lentil in India in general and Bihar in particular. There are some socio-economic issues related researches in pulses cultivation in Bihar, however, there are very limited study specifically for lentil cultivation in aforesaid aspect. Mokama Tal area is famous in India for its pulses cultivation. Thus, keeping all this in mind, this research work was coined with the objectives of i)to study the socio-economic profile of selected lentil growers in Mokama Tal; ii)to study the technological gap in lentil production in study area; iii)to identify the factors responsible for changing trend of lentil cultivation area; iv)to estimate the costs and returns of lentil cultivation; and v) to assess the constraints in lentil cultivation. For the present study 120 respondents were selected randomly from Mokama Tal area. From the study it was noted that maximum number of respondents (60.00%) were middle age group, most of them were male and 45.83% respondents belonged to general category. Most of the famers lived in joint family. It was also noted 70.82 % respondents had more than 10 years of farming experiences and 37.50% of them were big farmers. Major sources of information to the farmers were radio, kisan salahkaar, progressive farmers, and kisan diary. Major knowledge gap was noted in case of fertilizer management, land preparation and weed management. It was also noted that area under lentil cultivation is gradually increasing because of good stand of lentil, better response to DAP fertilizers, good market chain and stealing of standing lentil crop is less as compare to other pulses. The most important perceived abioticconstraints in lentil cultivation were soil hardiness after seed sowing and soil cracking. Short sowing period, on availability of credits in time, lack of knowledge on seed treatment, fluctuating prices of lentil,increase in cost of seed, timely availability of labour were some other important constraints as perceived by respondents.