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Integrated Farming System-A Model Land Use Plan for Sustainable Development


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1 ICAR-NBSS & LUP, Regional Centre, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Rajasthan (Udaipur), India
3 Bombay Veterinary College, Mumbai (M.S.), India
     

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Out of 105 million operational holdings, 80 million holdings are smaller than one hectare in India (Sharma, 2011) and 85 per cent of the farming population is marginal land holding size family farms (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO STAT, 2013). Under the circumstances of shrinking land holding size, it is necessary to integrate enterprises such as dairy, fishery, poultry, duckery, apiary, along with field and horticultural crops etc. so as to make farming a more profitable and dependable options for the farmers (Behera et al., 2004).
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Ashok Kumar
ICAR-NBSS & LUP, Regional Centre, New Delhi, India
Mohd. Arif
Department of Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Rajasthan (Udaipur), India
S. S. Kadam
Bombay Veterinary College, Mumbai (M.S.), India

Abstract


Out of 105 million operational holdings, 80 million holdings are smaller than one hectare in India (Sharma, 2011) and 85 per cent of the farming population is marginal land holding size family farms (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO STAT, 2013). Under the circumstances of shrinking land holding size, it is necessary to integrate enterprises such as dairy, fishery, poultry, duckery, apiary, along with field and horticultural crops etc. so as to make farming a more profitable and dependable options for the farmers (Behera et al., 2004).

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