The research was carried out in Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Wyra adopted villages in Telangana's Khammam District. Tomatoes are a major vegetable crop in the district, although yields are low owing to poor quality, early deterioration, pests, and disease outbreaks. KVK, Wyra made an effort to solve the problem of lowering pests and disease incidence while also enhancing fruit quality by introducing the Trellis technique of tomato growing. On-farm trials with a small number of farmers were used to test this on a modest scale for three years. As the primary thrust areas of KVKs are refinement and demonstration of innovative technologies, training of farmers and extension functionaries, this technology was up-scaled and disseminated on a broad scale with the support of front line demonstrations. From 2016-17 to 2018-19, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Wyra, Khammam held front-line demonstrations on tomato trellising in its adopted villages with the goal of improving tomato yield and quality by incorporating trellising, drip and mulching, indeterminate hybrid varieties, balanced fertiliser use, and integrated pest and disease management. Despite the fact that trellising has been around for a long time, the district's tomato producers had little awareness of it and were slow to adopt it. Cost of cultivation, production, productivity, gross returns, and net returns were all gathered and assessed according to the study's timetable. The study's findings indicated that the average greatest yield recorded in the demonstration plot was 622.58 q/ha, compared to 431.55 q/ha in the control plot, a yield increase of 191.03 q/ha, and a 44.33 percent average yield increase over the control plot. The study found that the extension and technology gaps varied from 183.45 to 201.80 q/ha and 11.40 to 41.25 q/ha, respectively, with a technology index of 4.21 percent over the demonstration years. In addition, when compared to farmer's practise, the displayed plots had a greater gross return, net return, and benefit cost ratio. The influence of FLD on horizontal spread, which has grown by 160.36 percent, was also investigated in this study. The research also included a formative and summative (outcome and impact) evaluation of the frontline trellising demonstrations in Tomato.
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