Pulses being rich in quality protein, minerals and vitamins are inseparable ingredients of diet of majority of Indian population. Despite of their high nutritive value and important role in sustainable agriculture desired growth rate in production could not be witnessed. The domestic production of pulses is consistently below the targets and actual domestic requirements are also higher, due to this pulses are being imported. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jodhpur-II has carried out frontline demonstrations on greengram crop covering an area of 40 ha at farmer's field to exhibit latest production technologies and compared it with farmer's practices. In this study, total 100 frontline demonstrations were conducted at farmer's fields in villages ., Palli-phanta, Bendokabera, Padasla and Kali-mali of Jodhpur district of Rajasthan state during 2018 and 2019, to demonstrate production potential and economic benefit of improved technologies comprising sowing method, nutrient management and weed management and adoption of whole package of practices. After sowing, application of weedicide Imazethapyr 10SL as early post emergence at 50 . per ha in 500 liters of water used for effective control of the weeds during kharif season under rainfed conditions. | Scaling up of green gram production under Front–line demonstrations in Jodhpur district of western Rajasthan, India
