Advances in Farming Systems

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Concept and definition: 1. History, evolution and scope of farming systems research and development in India/I..C. Mahapatra and U.K. Behera. 2. Overview of farming system research in India/U.K. Behera. 3. Integrated farming systems-the only pathway for small and marginal farmers of India/I.C. Mahapatra and U.K. Behera. 4. Integrated farming systems-to improve input use efficiency, employment and income in Eastern India/B.C. Biswas. II. Farming systems: procedures and methodologies: 5. Impact of water saving technologies demonstrated on farmers fields on cane yield, water use efficiency and economy of cane growers/D.V. Yadav, R.P. Verma, Rajendra Gupta and Kamta Prasad. 6. Participatory rural appraisal for identification and prioritization of researchable problems/U.K. Behera and P. Panigrahi. 7.Modeling processes and operations with linear programming for optimization of resource use/U.K. Behera and P.K. Sahoo. III. Multi criteria decision making and optimization: 8. Multiple criteria decision making and optimization techniques for designing integrated farming systems/U.K. Behera. 9. Optimization methodology for farm resource planning/Dipankar De. 10. Optimizing farming system for sustainable management and use of land and water resource in western zone of Tamil Nadu/K/R. Karunakaran and M. Chandrasekaran. 11. Multi-criteria decision analysis: concept and application/R.N. Sahoo. IV. Decision support in agriculture: 12. Development of decision support systems and its use in agriculture/A. Sarangi. 13. Use of simulation model for improved nutrient management/H. Pathak. 14. A decision support system based approach for recommending long term sustainable conjunctive water use and crop rotation/Ravinder Kaur. V. Integrated farming systems: 1. Rice fish farming systems in Asia/D.P. Sinhababu. 16. Fish based integrated farming system/R.K. Langer. 17. Farming systems and resource conservation technologies for sustainable hill agriculture/P.K. Ghosh and Anup Das. 18. Advances in agroforestry research and development in India/S.K. Dhyani. 19. Bio-energy management for sustainable farming system/P.K. Sahoo and U.K. Behera. 20. Mushrooms as a component of sustainable farming system/Manjit Singh. 21. Biodynamic farming for sustainable agriculture/B.S. Rath and B. Mishra. 22. Rice fish culture in North East India : a case study of lower Brahmaputra Valley/S.K. Rautaray and U.K. Behera. 23. Multiple uses of water for higher productivity through diversified farming systems/U.K. Behera, A.R. Sharma and P. Panigrahi. VI. Cropping systems and component technologies for efficient resource use in farming systems: 24. Assessment of efficiencies in crops and cropping system/B. Gangwar. 25. Crop diversification for efficient resource management and sustainable farming systems/U.K. Behera, Billu Singh and A.R. Sharma. 26. Tropical tuber crops based farming systems : an overview/M. Nedunchezhiyan, S.K. Jata and R.C. Ray. 27. Management strategies for improving water productivity in high rainfall area of Eastern India/Ravender Singh. 28. Micro-irrigation and fertigation for higher water and fertilizer use efficiency in crop production/P. Panigrahi and U.K. Behera. 29. Improving input use efficiency and profits in rice cultivation through system of rice intensification/Dinesh Kumar. 30. Weed dynamics of innovations in weed management research/T.K. Das and N.T. Yaduraju. 31. Integrated weed management for sustainable crop production/T.K. Das and U.K. Behera. VII. Conservation farming systems: 32. Conservation farming systems for rainfed areas/Suraj Bhan. 33. Resource conserving techniques for sustainable farming systems/A.R. Sharma and U.K. Behera. 34. Conservation agriculture for sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate change/U.K. Behera and A.R. Sharma. 35. Tillage and mulching for conservation and production in northwest hilly mountain agro-ecosystems/K.S. Dadhwal and V.N. Sharda. VIII. Entrepreneurship and post harvest and value addition in farming systems: 36. Harvesting, cleaning, sorting and grading techniques for fruits and vegetables/D.V.K. Samuel. 37. Water as enterprise: attempting and PPP model for poverty alleviation   at grass root level/B. Mishra, P. Panigrahi, R., Choudhary ad U.K. Behera. Subject index.

Recent researches on farming systems have provided exciting opportunities for improving input use efficiency, productivity, profitability and sustainability in farming systems. Integrated farming systems (IFS) are recognized as a potential tool for transforming the poverty prone rural India to a prosperous India. This approach can minimize risk through enterprise diversification, helps in efficient use of farm resources by recycling among the enterprises, and bring synergy among the interacting enterprises. FSR is of paramount importance for management of vast natural and human resources in our country to achieve higher rate of agricultural growth. Hence adoption of IFS approach is the need of the our as a method of low input agriculture to reduce costs and achieve sustain ability in Indian agriculture.

This book provides the most updated and comprehensive information n farming systems for improving farm productivity.