Grow Blackgram for Increasing Farmers’ Income

Abstract

Blackgram is one of the most important pulse crop grown in rice fallows by the farmers of Udalguri district of Assam. However, most of the land remains fallow after harvest of mono-cropped rice. So, blackgram was demonstrated using scientific cultivation practices. Fertilizer was applied as NPK@ 10-35-15 kg ha^-1; Compost @ 1 t ha^-1. Seed was treated with rhizobium culture @ 50 g kg^-1 seed under NFSM. The result revealed that the demonstration resulted in higher production of 9.2 q ha^-1 with net income of Rs. 21,500.00 ha^-1 as compared to 6.90 q ha^-1 with net income of Rs. 12,150.00 ha^-1 in farmers practice (control). The increase in yield was 33.33% over the farmers practice. The B:C ratio was also high in demonstration (1.87) over farmers practice (1.54).