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1. Farming system approach
• Submitted To:-
Dr. J.B.Patel
Associate Professor
Department of Agril. Extension
and Communication,
BACA, AAU,
Anand - 388110
• Submitted By:-
Yaksh M Patel
M.Sc.(Agri)
Agril. Extension and
Communication
Reg No. - 2010118056

2. Index
• Introduction
• Farming system
• Role of farming system
• Farming system research
• Farming System Research For Different Agro Climatic Zones In India
• Integrated farming system
• Different component of Integrated Farming System
• Integrated approach in wetland situation
• Objectives of Integrated farming systems
• Goals of Integrated farming systems
• Advantages of Integrated Farming System
• Constraints and Opportunities
• Conclusion
• References

3. Introduction
• Indian agriculture has challenge of providing national as well as
household food and nutritional security.
• In recent years, food security, livelihood security, water security as well as
natural resources conservation and environment protection have emerged
as major issues worldwide.
• Developing countries are struggling to deal with these issues and also
have burden of climate change and globalization.
• The human population of India has increased up to 132.41 crores and is
estimated to increase further to 1530 million by 2030.
• On the other hand our national food grain production for past 3-4 years is
around 234 million tonnes.

4. • There are projections that demand for food grains would increase from 234
million tonnes to 345 million tonnes in 2030.
• The average size of the landholding has declined to 1.1 ha during 2015-16
from 2.30 ha in 1970-71.
• Declining size of landholdings without any alternative income augmenting
opportunity is resulting in fall of farm income and causing agrarian distress.
• To meet the multiple objectives of poverty reduction, food security,
competitiveness and sustainability, several researchers have recommended
the farming systems approach to research and development.

5. Farming system
• Farming system is the
scientific integration of
different interdependent and
interacting farm enterprises
for the efficient use of land,
labour and other resources of
a farm family which provide
year round income to the
farmers specially located in
the handicapped zone.

6. What is it
• Farming system approach envisages the integration of agroforestry,
horticulture, dairy, sheep and goat rearing, fishery, poultry, pigeon, biogas,
mushroom, sericulture and by-product utilization of crops with the main
goal of increasing the income and standard of living of small and marginal
farmers.
• The end product and wastes of one enterprise are used as inputs in others.

7. Role of Farming System

8. Food security:
• Food security is defined as the food supply and effective demand for food.
• Food security means to meet or provide food to the effective demands of
family or the nation.
• Thus food security needs to be redefined as “livelihood security for the
household and all members within, which ensures both physical and
economic asses to balanced diet, safe drinking water, environmental
sanitation, and basic health care.

9. Provides Balanced Food
• There is need of farming system which has several components like
dairy, poultry, goatry, fisheries etc. along with crop production.
• In this way, farming system would not meet the food for but also
cater the need of protein, fat, vitamins and minerals required for
good health.
• Conjunction of horticulture and agroforestry with cropping would
ensure the seasonal access to fruits, fuel, fodder and fiber.

10. Quality food basket
• As the living status is improved the requirement of cereals will be
decreased and supplemented by other items viz. milk, egg, meat,
fruit etc.
• Integration of allied enterprises with cropping increase the nutritive
value of the products.
• Cropping with pigeon+fish+mushroom founds to have the highest
protein of 1963 kg.
• Integration of cropping with fish + mushroom and pigeon/poultry
could result in 31 to 52 % higher protein yield than cropping alone.

11. Higher productivity and enhanced farm income
• Integration of fish in rice system decreasing the rice grain yield due to
presence of fish trenches occupying 10% of the rice area, however,
additional income increased.
• The profit can be increased more when fish, vegetable system and
livestock include in rice – rice farming system.

12. Effective recycling of resources
The effective recycling of farm resources is possible
by adoption of farming system research.
Crop by-product is utilized as fodder for animals, and
animal by-product i.e. milk, and dung may be utilized
for increasing income and soil fertility, respectively.

13. Integrated crop-livestock farming system Key aspects
Livestock
production
Nutrient
cycle
Forages
crops
Crop
residues
Integrated
crop-livestock
Farming
system

14. Minimize environmental pollution
In Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh, burning of rice
residues is common practices which increased the concentration
of green house gases in atmosphere in addition to huge amount
of nutrient
Such situation should be avoided by introduction of some more
enterprises like animal husbandry on the farm.
Rice straw may be used as animal feed.
Ex. Banana stem

15. Employment generation
• Since crop based agriculture is highly season specific and
time bond, the intensity of labour requirement increases
during sowing and harvesting time of crops.
• For rest of the time farmers sitting idle if they do not have
off-farm activities. This leisure time could be utilized
effectively by adoption of farming system, which keeps the
whole family busy throughout the year.

16. Farming System Research
Farming System Concept was developed in 1970.
It is designed to understand farmer priorities, strategies and resource
allocation decisions.
Used in conjunction with on-farm research to identify and adopt
technologies useful to location specific problems of farmers.
Farming systems research and development approach associated
with small farmers and focuses on their conditions and aspirations.
Its goal to develop sustainable land use system which will optimize
resource use and increase income and employment for farm families.

17. Farming System Research For Different
Agro Climatic Zones In India
• Pastures with forestry, goats, rabbits, and
settled agricultural crops like millets,
wheat, barley, and fodders.
High altitude cold
deserts
• Animal husbandry with the camels, sheep
and goats, and growing with fodder and
field crops.
Arid and desert
region
• Horticultural crops as a major component
and agriculture mainly on the hill terraces
and slopes with maize, rice, wheat, pulses
and fodder crops.
Western and
central
Himalayas

18. • Primitive crop husbandry with rice, millets,
pulses etc. Agro forestry system are also
common. Piggery and poultry are the chief
livestock activity.
Eastern
Himalayas
• Intensive crop husbandry like rice-wheat-
maize/mustard/pulses and livestock, dairy, cattle
and buffaloes
Indo-Gangetic
plains
• Cotton-sorghum-millets/pulses with dairy cattle,
sheep and goats and poultry are the secondary
livestock and animal husbandry enterprises.
Central and
Southern
Highlands

19. • Major activity on plantation crops, cultivating
rice and pulses are the secondary agricultural
activity. Cattle, sheep and goats are the
livestock components which in most parts, are
maintained as large herds.
Western Ghats
• Rice cultivation with other enterprises like
fishery, poultry and piggery, etc., capture
fisheries of marine ecosystem is a specialized
enterprise.
Delta and
Coastal plains

20. Integrated farming system
• Integrated Farming Systems a
component of farming system research
introduces a change in farming
techniques for maximum production in
a cropping pattern and take care of
optimal utilization of resources.
• It focused around a few selected, inter-
dependent, interrelated and often inter-
linking production systems based on
few crops, animals and related
subsidiary professions.
• Means from definition

21. Different component of Integrated Farming System
• Field crops
• Crop production
• Vegetables
• Fruit cultivation
• Poultry farming
• Livestock integration
• Duckery
• Aquaculture
• Agroforestry
• Bee- keeping
• Mushroom cultivation
• Bio-gas plant

22. Integrated approach in wetland situation
•Rice based cropping with poultry-
cum-fish culture
•Crop-poultry-fishery
•Cropping with dairy
•Cropping with goat rearing
•Cropping with aquaculture

23. Integrated farming systems for irrigated areas
Cropping with dairy, biogas and siliviculture.
Integrated farming system for rainfed areas
Cropping with goat and silvopasture.
Integrated farming systems for hilly regions
Majority of the farmers in the region are
maintaining fruit tree like apple, dairy cattle and the
major source of green fodder comes from lopping
of the fodder trees and locally available grasses.

24. Objectives of Integrated farming systems
• To identify existing farming systems in specific area and assess their
relative viability.
• To formulate farming system models involving main and allied enterprises
for different farming situations.
• To ensure optional utilization and conservation of available resources and
effective recycling of farm residues within system.
• To maintain sustainable production system without damaging resources
base environment.
• To raise overall profitability of farm household by complementing main
allied enterprises with each other.

25. Continue…..
• Analysis of existing farming systems in terms of resource use efficiency,
production and productivity, income, employment and sustainability across
different agro-climatic zones.
• Evaluation and identification of farming system through participatory approach
that ensures threshold level of income for the livelihood security.
• Developing appropriate institutional and market linkage including value addition
for enhancing sustainability.
• Imparting training and capacity building of various stakeholders on IFS.

26. Goals of Integrated Farming Systems
Maximization of yield of all component enterprises
Achieve agro-ecological equilibrium
Provide steady and stable Income

27. Advantages of Integrated Farming System
• Increased Productivity Profitability
• Sustainability
• Balanced Food
• Recycling of resources Environmental safety
• Income round the Year Employment generation
• Meeting fodder crisis
• Solving Fuel and Timber crisis
• Improves literacy
• Increasing the standard of living of the farmer

28. Constraints and Opportunities
 Lack of appropriate technology
 Lack of farmers participatory research
 Inadequate Training
 Lack of rural infrastructure
 Policy implication
 Socio-economic constraints
 Inadequate institutional support

29. • In 2017, Mr Kalita’s integrated farm have five components i.e.
fishery, piggery, horticulture, duckery and dairy covering around 4
ha of land. His total annual gross returns went beyond 33 lakhs in
the year 2017, as compared to Rs. 1.5 lakh in 2006 and Rs. 5 lakh
during 2013. Mr. Kalita, by adopting such sustainable model has
been contributing to food and nutrition security of the district.

30. Conclusion
• Efficient utilization of scarce and costly resources is the need of the
hour to make crop production a viable proposition in the present day
competitive scenario.
• Following the concept of Integrated farming systems through
supplementation of allied agro-enterprises by recycling the waste of
one enterprise in another is a right step in this direction.
• It provides alternate and sustainable avocation to marginal and sub-
marginal farmers. Fruit, mushroom, apiary, animal production and
poultry have been more viable with them.

31. Continue…
• The crop residues and biomass available in plenty in the crop
production system need to be properly managed to harness full
benefits.
• Improving the integrated approach not only enhances farm
income but also overcomes environmental pollution.
• A better planning and utilization of the available resources will
usher in bright prospects for the farm economy as a whole.

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