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Integrated Farming System
Introduction
Integration of various agricultural enterprises viz.,
cropping, animal husbandry, fishery, forestry etc. have
great potentialities in the agricultural economy. These
enterprises not only supplement the income of the
farmers but also help in increasing the family labour
employment.
• The integrated farming system approach introduces a
change in the farming techniques for maximum
production in the cropping pattern and takes care of
optimal utilization of resources.
• The farm wastes are better recycled for productive
purposes in the integrated system.
Acc. to Paul Harris, “It is a system which comprises
of inter-related set of enterprises with crop activity as
base, will provide ways to recycle produces and
“waste” from one component becomes an input for
another part of the system, which reduces cost and
improves soil health and production and/or income.”
CONCEPTS OF INTEGRATED FARMING
SYSTEM
 An arrangement of recycling products/ by- products of
one component as input to another linked component
 Reduction in cost of production
 Increase in productivity per unit area per unit time
 Increase in total income of farm
 Effective utilization of family labors around the year
Elements Of Integrated Farming System
Farm ponds
Bio-fertilizers
Bio-gas
Solar energy
Vermi compost making
Green manuring
COMPONENTS OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM
 Crop husbandry
 Livestock production
 Poultry
 Horticulture
 Aquaculture
 Sericulture
 Mushroom cultivation
 Agro-forestry
 Biogas plants
 Miscellaneous enterprises
Why IFS is needed?
 For reducing the risks due to biotic and abiotic stresses
 High input costs
 For meeting the rising need of food, feed, fibre, fuel
and fertilizer
 Nutritional requirement of family
 Increased demand of soil nutrients
 For increasing the income
 Employment
 Standard of living
 Sustainability
Advantages of Integrated Farming System
 Profitability: Use waste material of one component at the least
cost. Thus reduction of cost of production and form the linkage of
utilization of waste material, elimination of middleman interference
in most input used. Working out net profit B/ C ratio is increased.
 Potentiality or Sustainability: Organic supplementation through
effective utilization of by products of linked component is done thus
providing an opportunity to sustain the potentiality of production
base for much longer periods.
 Balanced Food: We link components of varied nature enabling to
produce different sources of nutrition.
 Environmental Safety: In IFFS waste materials are effectively
recycled by linking appropriate components, thus minimize
environment pollution.
 Recycling: Effective recycling of waste material in IFFS.
 Income Rounds the year: Due to interaction of enterprises with
crops, eggs, milk, mushroom, honey, cocoons silkworm. Provides
flow of money to the farmer round the year.
 Adoption of New Technology: Resources farmer ( big farmer) fully utilize technology.
IFS farmers, linkage of dairy / mushroom / sericulture / vegetable. Money flow round
the year gives an inducement to the small/ original farmers to go for the adoption
technologies.
 Saving Energy: To identify an alternative source to reduce our dependence on fossil
energy source within short time. Effective recycling technique the organic wastes
available in the system can be utilized to generate biogas. Energy crisis can be
postponed to the later period.
 Meeting Fodder crisis: Every piece of land area is effectively utilized. Plantation of
perennial legume fodder trees on field borders and also fixing the atmospheric
nitrogen. These practices will greatly relieve the problem of non – availability of
quality fodder to the animal component linked.
 Solving Fuel and Timber Crisis: Linking agro- forestry appropriately the production
level of fuel and industrial wood can be enhanced without determining effect on
crop. This will also greatly reduce deforestation, preserving our natural ecosystem.
 Employment Generation: Combing crop with livestock enterprises would increase the
labour requirement significantly and would help in reducing the problems of under
employment to a great extent IFS provide enough scope to employ family labour
round the year.
Types of Integrated Farming Systems
 Crop-live stock farming system
 Crop-live stock –fishery farming system
 Crop-live stock – poultry - fishery farming system
 Crop-fishery-poultry farming system
 Crop- livestock-fishery-vermicomposting farming system
 Crop-live stock-forestry farming system
 Agri-silviculture system
 Agri-horti-silvi-pastoral system
Agri - Silviculture system
Agri-silviculture is a land
use management system in
which trees or shrubs are
grown around or among
crops or pastureland. It
combines shrubs and trees
in agricultural and forestry
technologies to create
more diverse, productive,
profitable, healthy,
ecologically sound, and
sustainable land-
use systems.
Rice-duck farming
Rice-duck farming is an
integrated type of farming
technology. It is especially
suitable for resource poor
farmers to produce organic
rice in low cost.
Integrated rice-duck
farming makes use of the
mutually beneficial
relation between ducks
and the rice crop to
increase rice productivity
low cost.
Rice-Fish farming
A rice-fish system is an
integrated rice field or rice
field/pond complex,
where fish are grown
concurrently or alternately
with rice. Fish may be
deliberately stocked (fish
culture), or may enter
fields naturally from
surrounding water ways
when flooding occurs (rice
field fisheries), or a bit of
both.
Factors determining type of farming
 Physical factor (Climate ,soil, topography)
 Economic factor
• Marketing cost
• Labour availability
• Capital
• Land value
• Prevalent pest and diseases
 Social factor (type of community, easy transport,
marketing facilities and co-operative spirit)
 Objective (income, production, minimizing cost etc.)
 Availability of resources and components
Factor deciding nature and size of
enterprises
 Farm size
 Marketing facilities
 Climate
 Technologies available
 Soil type and condition
 Income level
 Credit facility
 Skill/Knowledge
Goals of Integrated Farming Systems
 Maximization of yield of all component enterprises to provide
steady and stable income.
 Rejuvenation of system's productivity and achieve agro-
ecological equilibrium.
 Avoid build-up of insect-pests, diseases and weed population
through natural cropping system management and keep them
at low level of intensity.
 Reducing the use of chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) to
provide chemical free healthy produce and environment to
the society
Ideal situations for introduction of IFS
 The farmer wishes to improve the soil quality
 The farm household is struggling to buy food or below the
poverty line
 Water is stored on-farm in ponds or river-charged overflow
areas
 Soil salinity has increased as a result of inorganic fertilizer
use
 The farmer is seeking to maximize profits on existing holding
 The farm is being eroded by wind or water
 The farmer is looking to reduce chemical control methods
 The farmer wants to reduce pollution or waste disposal costs
Scope of Integrated Farming System
Integrated Farming enterprises include crop, livestock,
poultry, fish, tree crops, plantation crops, etc.
A combination of one or more enterprises with cropping,
when carefully chosen, planned and executed, gives
greater dividends than a single enterprise, especially for
small and marginal farmers.
 Soil and climatic features of the selected area.
 Availability of resources, land, labour and capital.
 Present level of utilization of resources. Scope of
Integrated farming systems
Conclusion
IFS is a promising approach for increasing over
all productivity and profitability through
recycling the farm by-products, and efficient
utilization of available resources. It could further
generate employment opportunities to the
farming communities round the year and
provide a better economic and nutritional
security.
Refrences
Channabasavanna A.S., Biradar D.P., Prabhudev K.N.,(2009).
Development of profitable integrated farming system model for small
and medium farmers of Tungabhadra project area of Karnataka.
Karnataka Journal Agriculture Sciences. 22(1) : 25-27.
Sahoo H.K. , Behera B., Behera U.K., Das T.K., (2015). Land productivity
enhancement and soil health improvement in rainfed rice (Oryza sativa)
farms of Odisha through integrated farming system. Indian Journal of
Agronomy. 60 (4): 485-492
Solaiappan, U., Subramanian, V., Maruthi Sankar, G.R., (2007). Selection
of suitable integrated farming system model for rainfed semi-arid vertic
inceptisols in Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Agronomy. 52(3): 194–97.
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Integrated farming system

  • 2. Introduction Integration of various agricultural enterprises viz., cropping, animal husbandry, fishery, forestry etc. have great potentialities in the agricultural economy. These enterprises not only supplement the income of the farmers but also help in increasing the family labour employment. • The integrated farming system approach introduces a change in the farming techniques for maximum production in the cropping pattern and takes care of optimal utilization of resources. • The farm wastes are better recycled for productive purposes in the integrated system.
  • 3. Acc. to Paul Harris, “It is a system which comprises of inter-related set of enterprises with crop activity as base, will provide ways to recycle produces and “waste” from one component becomes an input for another part of the system, which reduces cost and improves soil health and production and/or income.”
  • 4. CONCEPTS OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM  An arrangement of recycling products/ by- products of one component as input to another linked component  Reduction in cost of production  Increase in productivity per unit area per unit time  Increase in total income of farm  Effective utilization of family labors around the year
  • 5. Elements Of Integrated Farming System Farm ponds Bio-fertilizers Bio-gas Solar energy Vermi compost making Green manuring
  • 6. COMPONENTS OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM  Crop husbandry  Livestock production  Poultry  Horticulture  Aquaculture  Sericulture  Mushroom cultivation  Agro-forestry  Biogas plants  Miscellaneous enterprises
  • 7. Why IFS is needed?  For reducing the risks due to biotic and abiotic stresses  High input costs  For meeting the rising need of food, feed, fibre, fuel and fertilizer  Nutritional requirement of family  Increased demand of soil nutrients  For increasing the income  Employment  Standard of living  Sustainability
  • 8. Advantages of Integrated Farming System  Profitability: Use waste material of one component at the least cost. Thus reduction of cost of production and form the linkage of utilization of waste material, elimination of middleman interference in most input used. Working out net profit B/ C ratio is increased.  Potentiality or Sustainability: Organic supplementation through effective utilization of by products of linked component is done thus providing an opportunity to sustain the potentiality of production base for much longer periods.  Balanced Food: We link components of varied nature enabling to produce different sources of nutrition.  Environmental Safety: In IFFS waste materials are effectively recycled by linking appropriate components, thus minimize environment pollution.  Recycling: Effective recycling of waste material in IFFS.  Income Rounds the year: Due to interaction of enterprises with crops, eggs, milk, mushroom, honey, cocoons silkworm. Provides flow of money to the farmer round the year.
  • 9.  Adoption of New Technology: Resources farmer ( big farmer) fully utilize technology. IFS farmers, linkage of dairy / mushroom / sericulture / vegetable. Money flow round the year gives an inducement to the small/ original farmers to go for the adoption technologies.  Saving Energy: To identify an alternative source to reduce our dependence on fossil energy source within short time. Effective recycling technique the organic wastes available in the system can be utilized to generate biogas. Energy crisis can be postponed to the later period.  Meeting Fodder crisis: Every piece of land area is effectively utilized. Plantation of perennial legume fodder trees on field borders and also fixing the atmospheric nitrogen. These practices will greatly relieve the problem of non – availability of quality fodder to the animal component linked.  Solving Fuel and Timber Crisis: Linking agro- forestry appropriately the production level of fuel and industrial wood can be enhanced without determining effect on crop. This will also greatly reduce deforestation, preserving our natural ecosystem.  Employment Generation: Combing crop with livestock enterprises would increase the labour requirement significantly and would help in reducing the problems of under employment to a great extent IFS provide enough scope to employ family labour round the year.
  • 10. Types of Integrated Farming Systems  Crop-live stock farming system  Crop-live stock –fishery farming system  Crop-live stock – poultry - fishery farming system  Crop-fishery-poultry farming system  Crop- livestock-fishery-vermicomposting farming system  Crop-live stock-forestry farming system  Agri-silviculture system  Agri-horti-silvi-pastoral system
  • 11. Agri - Silviculture system Agri-silviculture is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines shrubs and trees in agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, ecologically sound, and sustainable land- use systems.
  • 12. Rice-duck farming Rice-duck farming is an integrated type of farming technology. It is especially suitable for resource poor farmers to produce organic rice in low cost. Integrated rice-duck farming makes use of the mutually beneficial relation between ducks and the rice crop to increase rice productivity low cost.
  • 13. Rice-Fish farming A rice-fish system is an integrated rice field or rice field/pond complex, where fish are grown concurrently or alternately with rice. Fish may be deliberately stocked (fish culture), or may enter fields naturally from surrounding water ways when flooding occurs (rice field fisheries), or a bit of both.
  • 14. Factors determining type of farming  Physical factor (Climate ,soil, topography)  Economic factor • Marketing cost • Labour availability • Capital • Land value • Prevalent pest and diseases  Social factor (type of community, easy transport, marketing facilities and co-operative spirit)  Objective (income, production, minimizing cost etc.)  Availability of resources and components
  • 15. Factor deciding nature and size of enterprises  Farm size  Marketing facilities  Climate  Technologies available  Soil type and condition  Income level  Credit facility  Skill/Knowledge
  • 16. Goals of Integrated Farming Systems  Maximization of yield of all component enterprises to provide steady and stable income.  Rejuvenation of system's productivity and achieve agro- ecological equilibrium.  Avoid build-up of insect-pests, diseases and weed population through natural cropping system management and keep them at low level of intensity.  Reducing the use of chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) to provide chemical free healthy produce and environment to the society
  • 17. Ideal situations for introduction of IFS  The farmer wishes to improve the soil quality  The farm household is struggling to buy food or below the poverty line  Water is stored on-farm in ponds or river-charged overflow areas  Soil salinity has increased as a result of inorganic fertilizer use  The farmer is seeking to maximize profits on existing holding  The farm is being eroded by wind or water  The farmer is looking to reduce chemical control methods  The farmer wants to reduce pollution or waste disposal costs
  • 18. Scope of Integrated Farming System Integrated Farming enterprises include crop, livestock, poultry, fish, tree crops, plantation crops, etc. A combination of one or more enterprises with cropping, when carefully chosen, planned and executed, gives greater dividends than a single enterprise, especially for small and marginal farmers.  Soil and climatic features of the selected area.  Availability of resources, land, labour and capital.  Present level of utilization of resources. Scope of Integrated farming systems
  • 19. Conclusion IFS is a promising approach for increasing over all productivity and profitability through recycling the farm by-products, and efficient utilization of available resources. It could further generate employment opportunities to the farming communities round the year and provide a better economic and nutritional security.
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