Integrated Farming System: A Prospective Approach towards Sustainable Agriculture

摘要

Owing to burgeoning population, industrialization and urbanization, agriculture land is decreasing day by day resulting in smaller and smaller land holdings. This has caused decrease in profit from traditional rice wheat cropping system. To overcome this problem of small land holding and decreasing margins, integrated farming system approach (IFS) can be a viable option. The study is being conducted from 2011-12, in an ongoing integrated farming system experiment under AICRP on IFS at Norman E. Borlaugh Crop Research Centre, Pantnagar. The IFS model comprises crops, dairy, biogas, vermicomposting, fishery, horticulture and agroforestry. The average farm production evaluated in terms of REY (t/ha) exhibits that total 30.49 t REY/ha/ annum was produced from the model during five years. Whereas, the average annual net returns was Rs. 221420.10 and the crop, horticulture, livestock, fishery and other units were sharing about 27.33, 25.03, 40.79, 0.09 and 7.01% to the net returns, respectively. Benefit:cost ratio in terms of economic point of view was 2.77/ annum during last 5 years. The average saving from the recycled farm products and by products and farm-labour engagement were 25.80 and 40.50 %, respectively to the average cost of production. Itwas also evaluated that during 2015-16, there was a handsome family savings of Rs. 236019.00 from the IFS unit.