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Integrated Farming

The document discusses integrated farming systems as a sustainable approach to farming. An integrated farming system comprises interrelated farm enterprises with crop activity as the base. It allows the products and waste of one enterprise to be used as inputs for another, reducing costs and improving soil health and farmer income. The key components of an integrated farming system include crop husbandry, livestock production, aquaculture, apiculture, sericulture, and mushroom cultivation. Integrated farming systems have several advantages, including increased productivity and profitability, environmental sustainability, higher incomes, and more.

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Integrated Farming

The document discusses integrated farming systems as a sustainable approach to farming. An integrated farming system comprises interrelated farm enterprises with crop activity as the base. It allows the products and waste of one enterprise to be used as inputs for another, reducing costs and improving soil health and farmer income. The key components of an integrated farming system include crop husbandry, livestock production, aquaculture, apiculture, sericulture, and mushroom cultivation. Integrated farming systems have several advantages, including increased productivity and profitability, environmental sustainability, higher incomes, and more.

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INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM-(AN SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO

FARMING SYSTEM)
Definition of farming system.
“Farming system represent an appropriate combination of farm enterprises (cropping system
horticulture, livestock, fishery, forestry, poultry) and the means available to the farmer to
raise them for profitability. It interacts adequately with environment without dislocating the
ecological and socioeconomic balance on one hand and attempts to meet the national goal
on other “(Jayanti et al 2002)

TYPES OF FARMING SYSTEM


1.TRADITIONAL FARMING SYSTEM 2.SUBSISTENCE FARMING SYSTEM

3.SPECIALIZED FARMING SYSTEM 4 .INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM


5.ALTERNATIVE FARMING( (ORGANIC FARMING , AGRO ECOLOGICAL FARMING SYSTEM , BIO-
INTENSIVE FARMING SYSYTEm, BIO-DYNAMIC FARMING PERMACULTURE)

Integrated farming system;


“It is a system which comprises of inter related enterprises with crop activity as a base will
provide ways to recycle produces and waste of one enterprise becomes input for other another part
of the system which reduces the cost and improves soil health and income.”

Concept of IFS:
 An arrangement of recycle products or by product of one component as input to
another linked component.
 Reduction in production cost.
 Increase in yield and cost of production per unit area.
 Proper utilisation of family labour.
 Increase in income of the farmer and the farm
ADVANTAGE OF IFS
PRODUCTIVITY-increase in yield per unit area.

PROFITABILITY-bio product of one enterprise use an input for other.

SUSTAINABILITY-organic sustainability by proper utilisation of bi products.

ENVIROMENTAL SAFETY- recycling result in minimum environment population.

INCOME- due to no. of enterprise running successively throughout the year.

ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY- as the net return is more farmers can adopt new andimproved
technology.

MEETING FODDER CRISIS-legume production on field borders relive the problems for non-
availability of fodder.

ENERGY SAVING-due to biogas.

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION- lot of labour requirement is needed for IFS.as successive enterprise
runs throughout the year.
AGRO INDUSTRIES- commercial production lead to development of agro industries.

INCREASE INPUT EFFICIENCY- IFS provide good scope to use input in different component with
greater efficiency and high benefit cost ratio.

Component of IFS. COMPONENTS OF IFS (RELATED TO


FARM ANIMALS).
1.CROP HUSBANDARY- Practice of combining
agricultural crops or animal husbandry with the
maintenance and cultivation of trees on the same
patch of land.

2.LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION- Livestock farming is simply


the management and breeding of
domestic, livestock or farm animals for the purpose of
obtaining their meat and products (milk, eggs,

leather, etc.)

 3.AQUACULTURE- the rearing of aquatic animals or


the cultivation of aquatic plants for food.

4.APICULTURE.- can be better define as the art of rearing,


breeding and managing honey bee colony in artificial hives for
economic gains through the production of honey 

APICULTURE TECHNIQUE

5.SERICULTURE- the production of silk and the


rearing of silkworms for this purpose.

Mushroom cultivation (different species)


6.MUSHROOM CULTIVATION-. Growing of different species of mushroom for commercial purpose.

 7. Agroforestry- is the interaction of agriculture and trees, including the agricultural


use of trees

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