A major farming community of India comes under small and marginal farming community, where the size of land holding is very low to achieve the standards of livelihood. India is a land of small farmers, with 650 million of its more than 1 billion people living on the land and 80 per cent farmers owning less than 2 ha of land. India, since over 700 million of India’s population lives in villages and their principal source of livelihood is agriculture, comprising crop and animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, agro-processing and agri-business. Therefore, accelerated progress in enhancing the productivity, profitability, stability, and sustainability of the major farming systems is the best safety net against hunger and poverty. To overcome this situation oilseed & pulses can play a vital role besides the cereal crops. Oilseed and pulses are the rich sources of proteins, quality nutrition and valuable cash also.. The objectives of Front Line Demonstration on oilseed and pulse crops are to demonstrate the superior productivity potentials of various location/region specific technologies to practicing farmers and test their implement ability and viability and obtain feed back from the end users and bring about necessary corrections to improve their acceptability and suitability in real farm situations vis-à-vis prevailing traditional farmers practices.. The results of Front Line Demonstrations on pulses shows that the highest percentage increase in yield was noted in green gram 46.05% followed by lentil (32.85%) and gram (31.57%). All the Front Line Demonstrations showed a significant increase in yield of demonstration over farmers’ practices. The enhanced yield achieved through adoption of improved production technologies in oilseed and pulses increased the Livelihood security

Keyword: Livelihood security; Demo