Doubling the small farmers income through integrated farming system approach in irrigated ecosystem

Integration of different enterprises / crop by utilizing farmer’s available resources is one of the best multidisciplinary approaches to boosting farmers’ income from production and economic point of view. In this context, awareness and dissemination of this farming approach are taken as a priority of work with multidisciplinary interventions. One model has been developed on Integrated Farming System Approach in the farmers’ fields on Crop + poultry + fish or Crop + duck + fish in aquatic based production through conducting awareness camp, trainings, trials and demonstrations. This has been developed in the field of one of the farmers namely Shoyeb Hossain, a marginal farmer-cum-rural youth of Jagulipara village in Purba Barddhaman disrict of West Bengal. Although being a rural youth, he has got a pragmatic view towards latest agricultural technologies and he is keen to learn and as such he was chosen for developing the integrated farming system model in his backyard. He owned one pond of 1 bigha with adjoining 1.5 bigha land including bund area. The pond was mainly used for household purposes like washing with irregular or even no pisciculture while the land area was used for growing seasonal vegetables for meeting household needs and as a result he was hardly having any meaningful income from the resources. He was extensively trained towards developing the integrated farming system in his backyard which he accomplished with success. To start with he was supplied with tissue cultured banana plantlets, vegetable seedlings, poultry chicks, ducklings and IMC fingerlings. A good banana orchard intercropped with vegetables like chili, tomato, brinjal, turmeric etc. was developed. The model with Crop+ fish + poultry farming has proven more remunerative (Benefit-Cost ratio 2.40) and his earning around Rs. 1,50,000 per annum from that farm, thus inspiring other farmers to adopt this kind of intervention. Advantageous aspects such as production potentiality, insurance coverage by other crops / enterprise, flow of return motivated farming community as well as district officials. Study on changes in food security indicated that over 4 years there has been augmentation in food security of the respondents. This is due to increase in income owing to adoption of improved technologies and crop diversification. It was revealed that the annual income of the members increased from Rs.15000/-to Rs. 135000in the 4 eastern clusters but that of Galsi cluster ranged between Rs. 10500/- to Rs 82000/-. The income augmentation was positively correlated with the land holding (0.95) size of the respondents. This model has been identified by district MGNREGA and had been taken up in MGNREGA convergence programme which is being replicated in selected 200 ponds recently excavated under the programme in the district. Many workshops have been conducted on the methodologies for these interventions to all the beneficiaries, Self Help Group (SHGs) and officers of line departments involving in the convergence programme of MGNREGA of the district.

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Integrated Farming System: Profitable Farming to Small Farmers

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ◽

10.20546/ijcmas.2017.610.330 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (10) ◽

pp. 2819-2824 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kamble Anand Shankar ◽

L.N. Yogeesh ◽

S.M. Prashant ◽

P. Sheik Peer ◽

B.K. Desai

Keyword(s):

Farming System ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Integrated Farming

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Intensive Integrated Farming System Approach-A Vaccination to Cure Agrarian Crisis in the Punjab

Indian Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.5958/2322-0430.2016.00104.9 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (1a) ◽

pp. 451

Author(s):

S.S. Walia ◽

C.S. Aulakh ◽

R.S. Gill ◽

Vikrant Dhawan ◽

Jaspreet Kaur

Keyword(s):

System Approach ◽

Farming System ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Agrarian Crisis

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Socioeconomic Analysis of Alternative Farming Systems in Improving Livelihood Security of Small Farmers in Selected Areas of Bangladesh

The Agriculturists ◽

10.3329/agric.v10i1.11065 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 51-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sadika Sharmin ◽

M. Serajul Islam ◽

Md. Kamrul Hasan

Keyword(s):

Household Income ◽

Farming System ◽

Farm Households ◽

Farm Income ◽

Farm Household ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Small Farm ◽

Livelihood Security ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Alternative Farming

The present study attempted to determine the economic returns of alternative farming system of integrated farming aiming to address the livelihood security of small farm households. One hundred and sixty small and medium farmers practicing in four different FS such as Crop-Poultry (C-P), Crop-Poultry-Pond fisheries (C-P-F), Crop-Livestock-Poultry (C-L-P) and Crop-Livestock-Poultry-Pond fisheries (C-L-P-F) were selected from Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Sherpur district. The main information collected were socio-demographic characteristics of farm households, household income from farm and non-farm sources, size of land holding and farming system followed, livestock and poultry rearing and pond fish culture, and effect of integrated farming on household income and livelihood security of small farm households. Data were collected covering one production period during 2009-2010. For estimating farm income of small farm household, whole farm approach was considered. Increased number of farm enterprises caused higher farm income. However, considering the small farm practices and whole farm approach, the farm income as well as net return was higher for C-L-P-F farmers (Tk. 57002), followed by C-L-P (Tk. 52978), C-P-F (Tk. 20447) and C-P (Tk. 13734) farmers. Some of the most commonly used factors in the assessment of livelihood security included those related to household income and expenditure, expenditure spent on food, adequacy of food taken, household structure and facilities, owning household assets, and access to drinking water and sanitation, and other basic needs of farm household. All these socioeconomic factors were found to be related livelihood security of small farmers in Bangladesh. Women were more involved in income earning activities and household decision making with the introduction of integrated farming in small farm condition.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/agric.v10i1.11065The Agriculturists 2012; 10(1): 51-63

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Impact of Integrated Farming System Approach on Sustainable Production for Farming Community

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ◽

10.20546/ijcmas.2020.904.281 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 2345-2350

Author(s):

G. Porkodi ◽

S. Kannan

Keyword(s):

System Approach ◽

Farming System ◽

Sustainable Production ◽

Farming Community ◽

Integrated Farming

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Integrated farming system for livelihood security of small farmers of North- East Karnataka

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS ◽

10.15740/has/irjaes/8.2/216-221 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 216-221

Author(s):

S. N. VINODAKUMAR ◽

B. K. DESAI ◽

A.S. CHANNABASAVANNA ◽

SATYANARAYANA RAO ◽

M. G. PATIL ◽

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Keyword(s):

Farming System ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Livelihood Security ◽

North East ◽

Integrated Farming

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Farming system approach to meet the challenges from extreme weather

MAUSAM ◽

10.54302/mausam.v67i1.1140 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 15-26

Author(s):

B. GANGWAR ◽

N. SUBASH ◽

N. RAVISANKAR

Keyword(s):

System Approach ◽

Extreme Event ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

Farming System ◽

Extreme Weather ◽

Extreme Weather Events ◽

Small Farms ◽

Management Options ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Horizontal Expansion

Location specific and integrated farming system based technological management options reduce the climatic risk and better utilization of available natural resources produce higher agricultural productivity and thereby enhance food and livelihood security of small and marginal farmers of India. The significance of IFS approach is supportive in enhancing productivity to meet the food, feed and fuel for ever increasing human and animal population. It also increases the land productivity, profitability and also generate employment. Since small farms are often vulnerable to natural vagaries like flood, drought and farming remains at risk. Due to industrialization and population growth, the horizontal expansion of agricultural area is not possible. The vertical expansion in small farms is possible by integrating appropriate farming system components requiring less space and time and ensuring periodic income to the farmers. A farming system model was synthesized based on the studies conducted at ICAR-IIFSR located in western plain zone of Uttar Pradesh for a period of six years (2004-2010) revealed that Integrated farming system approach applied on a piece of 1.5 hectare irrigated land, besides fulfilling all the requirement of 7 members household food and fodder demand (animals) inclusive cost of production, could create an additional average annual savings of Rs. 47000/- in four fours of its establishment and more than Rs. 50000/- in subsequent years. the family gets some income round the year and another benefit is if due to any extreme event occurred at any time of the year, the farmer will get some income from any of the enterprises, so that it will cater to the need of the food security. Since each enterprise react differently to extreme weather events; the influence of droughts/floods/ higher temperature will be different to different enterprises and because of the diversification, the farmer will get some income from their enterprises, so that he can sustain under difficult times. This manuscript analyses how farming system approach is different and site specific and also how it will decrease the vulnerability under extreme climatic situations with some examples.

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