Abstract

Rice is the major crop and stable food as well as the of four HYVs. The technology gap which livelihood security for small and marginal farmers’ corroborates to the gap in demonstration yield over and farming community in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. potential yield of 71 kg/ha for Ranjit to 544 kg/ha for One of the major constraints in traditional local rice Gomati. The highest extension gap was found in the farming in Garo Hills district of Meghalaya is lower variety Gomati followed by Swarna Mahsuri and productivity. To replace the local tall long duration Ranjit which emphasized the need to educate the traditional cultivars, ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, West farmers through various means of adoption of Garo Hills was conducted frontline demonstrations improved high yielding varieties and improved agro-in five different blocks viz., Rongram, Selsella, technologies to reverse the trend of wide extension Betasing, Dalu, Gambegre and Zikzak in West and gap. The lowest technology index of 1.48 for the South West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya during variety Ranjit and highest technology index of 9.89 2010 to 2013 in kharif season. The high yielding with Gomati was recorded. But the range of varieties of rice was performed extremely well when technology index showed that the gap of new compared with local check variety Champali. The technologies evolved at research stations and percentage increase in yield was 68.89, 73.64 and farmers’ field was 1.48 to 9.89 percents. The higher 77.00 in Ranjit, Swarna Mahsuri and Gomati, net return and benefit cost ratio was fetched by the respectively with average increase of 73.18 in yield Gomati variety closely at par with variety Ranjit.

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