Integrated Livestock Farming: A Holistic Management Approach

Annals of Veterinary Science ◽

10.31829/2691-5502/avs2021-4(1)-001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-4

Keyword(s):

Labor Demand ◽

Farming System ◽

Management Approach ◽

Livestock Farming ◽

Family Labor ◽

Nutritional Security ◽

Natural Resource Conservation ◽

Holistic Management ◽

Farm Production ◽

Integrated Farming

Small and marginal farmers can increase their economic yield per unit area per unit time by using a livestock-based integrated farming system. Waste materials are effectively recycled in this device by connecting suitable components. As a consequence, pollution in the air is minimized. The factors responsible for the farming system's sustainability are recycling of materials, byproducts, and waste material in an integrated farming system. The processing of eggs, meat, and milk provides nutritional protection and income to farmers throughout the year, thanks to the integration of various livestock components with crops. Combining crop and livestock enterprises will dramatically increase labor demand and, as a result, help to significantly reduce unemployment issues. ILFS offers enough resources for family labor during the year. The main issues for sustainable agriculture are food stability, natural resource conservation, and environmental protection. Integrating livestock is the way to go if you want to optimize the use of available resources while still protecting the ecosystem for economic development. Diversifying farm production, growing profits, enhancing nutritional security, and promoting nutraceuticals are all benefits of an integrated farming system.

Download Full-text

Introducing Animal-Assisted Intervention for Special Education in Integrated Farming System

IAFOR Journal of Education ◽

10.22492/ije.8.4.11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 193-211

Author(s):

eh Xian Zhi ◽

Zalena Abdul Aziz ◽

Nooriati Taib

Keyword(s):

Special Education ◽

Learning Environment ◽

Online Survey ◽

Technical Information ◽

Farming System ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Livestock Farming ◽

Education Practice ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Animal Assisted Intervention

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopment disorder that affects an individual’s social skills, communication skills and repetitive behaviours. Due to these factors, an autism learning environment has to be purposely-built to cater for the sensory needs of these learners. In special education practice, animal-assisted intervention has become popular over recent years to this end. This study aims to analyse the practice of animal-assisted intervention in an autism learning environment with the aid of a sustainable system called an integrated farming system. The study is conducted using mixed methods, involving content analysis of the technical information and detailed drawings of an integrated farming system, as well as an online survey about the implementation of the intervention in autism classrooms via such a system. Our findings show that the technical drawings for implementing an integrated farming system in the built environment represent an architectural intervention. The online survey also shows positive feedback from experts in autism services. The study concludes that animal-assisted autism learning is a promising future model for special education. It also suggests that an integrated farming system is a potential nature-based livestock farming solution to include animals in a farm-based autism educational setting. This could serve as a reference and basis for future architects or researchers to extend the research or implement animal-assisted interventions in real practices.

Download Full-text

Integrated farming system for sustainable livelihood, family food and nutritional security of Uttarakhand farmers-A case study

Journal of the Inland Fisheries Society of India ◽

10.47780/jifsi.53.1-2.2021.115786 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 53 (1 & 2) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Archana Kushwaha ◽

Vipul Gupta ◽

Harapriya Nayak ◽

Vijay Kumar Singh ◽

S. K. Sharma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Farming System ◽

Sustainable Livelihood ◽

Nutritional Security ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Food And Nutritional Security

Download Full-text

Study the economics of crop-livestock integrated farming system: A study of Hadoti Region of Rajasthan

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ◽

10.15740/has/ijas/17-aaebssd/34-40 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (AAEBSSD) ◽

pp. 34-40

Author(s):

Avdhesh Sharma ◽

P. S. Badal

Keyword(s):

Primary Source ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Farming System ◽

Livestock Farming ◽

Livestock Farming Systems ◽

System A ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Gross Income ◽

The Cost ◽

Livestock Rearing

An integrated Farming system is the basic need of today. A survey of farmers was conducted in 2020-21 covering the Kota, Bundi, Baran, and Jhalawar districts of southern Rajasthan. Crop-livestock farming systems were adopted by most of the farmers in the study area. Cereals, legumes, and oilseed were the major crops that were sown. The farmer of this region (Hadoti) practiced livestock rearing along with crop cultivation which had significant contributions as their primary source of income. The gross income per hectare from Soybean, black gram, wheat, and gram was Rs. 34,645.23, Rs. 28,150.61, Rs. 64268.78 and Rs. 47543.00, respectively. The cost was calculated using the Cost concept as suggested by CACP. Using livestock as one more enterprise farmers’ was able to generate higher profit shown in the study. B:C ratio for IFS was 1.3 which was a good sign for the farming enterprise.

Download Full-text

Greenhouse gas emission from integrated farming system models : A comparative study

Green Farming ◽

10.37322/greenfarming/10.6.2019.696-701 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 696

Author(s):

MEERA A.V. ◽

JOHN J. ◽

SUDHA B. ◽

SAJEENA A. ◽

JACOB D. ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽

Farming System ◽

Gas Emission ◽

System Models ◽

Integrated Farming

Download Full-text

Enhancement in productivity and income sustainability through Integrated farming system approaches for small and marginal farmers of Eastern India

Journal of AgriSearch ◽

10.21921/jas.v4i2.7777 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SANJEEV KUMAR ◽

SHIVANI . ◽

S. K. SAMAL ◽

S. K. DWIVEDI ◽

MANIBHUSHAN .

Keyword(s):

Nutrient Recycling ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Fruit Trees ◽

Farming System ◽

Eastern Region ◽

Net Income ◽

System Productivity ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Systems Models ◽

The Cost

Integration of different components viz. livestock, fishery, horticulture, mushroom etc. along with field crops not only enhanced productivity but by-products (waste) of one component act as input for another component through resource recycling within the system. Six integrated farming systems models with suitable combinations of Crop, vegetables, fruit trees, fish, livestock, mushroom etc. were made and evaluated at the experimental farm of ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna during 2012-16 for harness maximum income, nutrient recycling and employment. Among six combinations, crop + fish + duck + goat resulted as most profitable combination in terms of productivity (RGEY- 22.2t), net income (Rs. 2,15,900/ha), additional employment (170 days/year) with income sustainability index (ISI) by 90.2. Upon nutrient recycling prepared from different wastes from the system Crop + fish + duck + goat combination added N (56.5 kg), P (39.6 kg) and K (42.7 kg) into the soil and reduced the cost of cultivation by 24 percent and was followed by crop + fish + goat combination. Crops grown under IFS mode with different types of manures produced 31 percent higher yield over conventional rice- wheat system. The contribution of crops towards the system productivity ranged from 36.4 to 56.2 %, while fish ranged from 22.0-33.5 %; for goat 25.4-32.9 %; for poultry 38.7 %; for duck 22.0-29.0 %; for cattle 32.2% and for mushroom 10.3 %.

Download Full-text

Assessment of ecosystem services provided by livestock agroecosystems in the tropics: a case study of tropical island environment of Guadeloupe

Tropical Animal Health and Production ◽

10.1007/s11250-021-02880-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

Author(s):

J.-L. Gourdine ◽

A. Fourcot ◽

C. Lefloch ◽

M. Naves ◽

G. Alexandre

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Farming System ◽

Livestock Farming ◽

Tropical Island ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Livestock Farming System ◽

Agroecological Zones ◽

The Tropics ◽

Cluster 2

AbstractThe present study aims to assess (1) the ecosystem services (ES) provided by LFS and (2) the differential ES between local (Creole) and exotic breeds from pig, cattle and goat. The ES are defined as the benefits that humans derive from LFS. They were summarized in 12 ES indicators that cover services related to provisioning, ecological and socio-cultural aspects and territorial vitality. A total of 106 LFS units that covers the five agroecological zones of Guadeloupe were analysed. Functional typologies of LFS per species were created from surveys. The effect of breed on the ES indicators was tested. Results showed that the 40 pig LFS units were separated into 3 clusters that were differentiated in ES according to provisioning ES (cluster 1), cultural use and sale to the neighborhood (cluster 2) and pork self-consumption (cluster 3). The typology of the 57 farms with cattle distinguished 4 clusters with differences in ES provided in self-consumption (cluster1), ecological ES (cluster 2), socio-cultural ES for racing or draught oxen (cluster 3) and ES associated with territory vitality (cluster 4). The 66 goat LFS units were classified into 3 clusters different in ES concerning self-consumption (cluster 1), cultural aspects (cluster 2) and provisioning ES (cluster 3). Our study highlights that ES indicators are not breed dependent (P > 0.10) but rather livestock farming system dependent. The ES rely more on the rearing management than on the breed type, and up to now, there are no specifications in Guadeloupe to differentiate management between breeds.

Download Full-text