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COMPENDIUM, IEEC-2023   ( ISBN : 978-81-967860-4-5 )
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Theme 2: Recent Trends in Agriculture and Resource Management

Integrated Farming System

Avinash Atal, Samita Saini, Neha Kumawat

PGIVER, Jaipur Rajasthan
dravinashatal@gmail.com

Abstract

A growing demand of thinking about them, evolved in space and time. Integrated farming systems (IFS) is an eco-friendly process in which waste of one enterprise becomes the input of another thus its make more well-organized use of resources from the farm. This synergistic approach to agriculture, combining livestock farming and fish farming, results in the production of more diversified farm products, an increase in cash incomes, improvement in the quality and quantity of farm products, a reduction in pollution and more efficient exploitation of otherwise unutilized resources. It has been developed simulating the entire farm based situations faced by the small and marginal farmers. Integration of different field crops, vegetables and farm animals, we can earn profitability of with overall holistic. The integration is made in such a way that product of one component should be the input for other enterprises with high degree of complimentary effects on each other. The fodder fed to the cattle produces milk. The dung, urine and litter produce farmyard manure and energy used for crops and fish pond. The siltation of fish pond is utilized as manure to crops. The farmyard manure can substitute about 25% of recommended N P and K for crops, besides improving the physical and biological properties of soil. Enhancing soil health, controlling weeds and pests, increasing water usage efficiency, and maintaining water quality are all made possible by IFS. The use of dangerous chemical pesticides, weed killers, and fertilizers should be reduced in integrated agricultural systems in order to protect the IFS contributes to bettering soil health.

IEEC-2023 at RARI (SKNAU, Jobner), Jaipur, Rajasthan organised by Society of Extension Education, Agra, India