Integrated Farming Systems for Sustainable Production
Contents: Foreword. 1. Managing natural resources for increasing agricultural production in Eastern India/A.K. Sarkar. 2. Sustainable agriculture in Jharkhand through proper rain water management/A. Wadood. 3. Integrated farming system for sustainable food production/B.N. Singh. 4. Food and nutrition security through farming system/R.P. Singh. 5. Environmental issues in integrated farming system/D.C. Ghosh and K. Pramanik. 6. Agrosystem analysis in perspective of farming system/R.R. Upasani. 7. Farming systems research approach concept and principles/R.S. Singh and C.S. Singh. 8. Watershed management in relation to sustainable farming system/S.K. Pal. 9. Nutrient management through micro irrigation/R. Suresh. 10. Soil and water quality analysis/Arvind Kumar and B.K. Agrawal. 11. Pesticide residue analysis in vegetable and soil/D.K. Shahi. 12. Problem soils and their management/B.P. Singh. 13. Prospect of organic farming in farming system approach/B. Mishra. 14. Pulse as component of integrated farming system/G.P. Srivastava and C.S. Singh. 15. Management of important diseases of major crops/S.M. Prasad. 16. Fruit and flowers as a component of integrated farming system/Prashant Kumar and C.S. Singh. 17. Pasture and grassland management in integrated farming systems/S. Karmakar and Dev Kant Prasad. 18. Dairy as an integral component of integrated farming system/Balraj Singh. 19. Poultry and duckery as a component of integrated farming system/Sushil Prasad. 20. Piggery as a component of integrated farming system/S.K. Singh. 21. Fisheries based integrated farming system/A.K. Singh. 22. Agroforestry under integrated farming systems/S.M. Sulaiman Quli and C.S. Singh. 23. Natural resins and gums a potential component of agro forestry and climate moderation/Bangali Baboo. 24. Value addition of agricultural products through food processing/Rekha Sinha. 25. Economic analysis of integrated farming system for sustainable production/B.K. Singh. 26. On-farm testing of improved farming system technology/M.S. Yadava and C.S. Singh. 27. Integrated approach to research extension linkage in improving productivity and profitability of farming systems/R.P. Singh. Subject Index.
This book is a compilation of lecture notes of eminent scientists in the field of agriculture and allied sectors on integrated farming systems for sustainable livelihood, food and nutritional security of rural masses. Improved agricultural technologies are of limited value if these are not adopted by farming community. Farming system on the other hand, is a judicious mix of cropping systems with associated enterprises like fruits, vegetables, flowers, dairy, poultry, piggery, duckery, goatery, fishery, lac, sericulture, etc. suited to given agroclimatic conditions which will help to generate additional employment and income for the small and marginal farmers under rainfed and irrigated conditions.
Conceptually it is an attempt to efficiently utilize the components of soil, water, climate, crops, farm wastes, livestock, land, labour, capital, energy and other resources with the farm family at center.
Authors feel that farming systems if adopted on a farmer and market linked mode will improve the productive potential and land resources by augmenting use efficiency of inputs through diversification, crop rotation, nutrient recycling and conservation of natural resources.
In this book an effort has been made to present the detailed information about the integrated farming system concept principles components, model development and their usefulness to the farm household. We hope that the book would prove to be useful to the students, researchers, planners, farmers and other stakeholders. All the chapters in the book have been meticulously comprehended compiled and presented with a fine skill by the experts of respective fields.
