INTEGRAL FARMING SYSTEM Part 1

 

Integrated Farming System: A-must agricultural practice

Integral farming system is an interdependent and interlocked production system involving different crops, animals and/or other related subsidiary enterprises in such a manner that maximizes the utilization of nutrients and wastes of each system thereby minimizing the negative effect of these systems on environment.

In integral farming, some waste product of a particular production system is utilized by another system rather than releasing it as waste/toxic substance into the environment. Some good examples are the channeling of poultry waste into crop production, channeling of fish pond waste water into irrigation and also use of poultry waste in fish production.

Benefits or Advantages of Integrated Farming System

The benefits/ advantages of integral farming are very vast depending on scale of production. However the following are the major aspects that make the practice worthwhile.

·         Increase in Productivity: The waste inclusion usually increases the yield of different components of production in the system at less production cost.

·         Profitability: Considering the fact that each other by-product is utilized as raw material of other components, there is reduction of cost of cultivation/maintenance as well as enhancing soil fertility for sustainable production.

·         Better waste management: Incorporation of production waste into different production systems reduces the wastes/ toxic substances released into the environment.

·         Potentiality or Sustainability: In long term aspects, the linking of different components act as organic raw material through effective utilization of available resources provides an opportunity to regain potentiality of production.

·         Balanced Food: different component supplies different nutrients which can fulfill ones daily required nutrients in production.

·         Environmental Safety: Effectively recycling of waste material as others raw materials through this system minimizes environment pollution.

·         Recycling: It encourages effective recycling of waste material (crop residues and livestock wastes) making farm self-sufficient in terms of avoiding outside inputs – fertilizers, agrochemicals, feeds, energy, etc.

 

Comments

  1. UjunwaApril 21, 2022 at 11:00 PM

    you are very correct. this will reduce waste and increase productivity. a must do, thanks

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