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    What is Sustainable Agriculture ?

    Sustainable Agriculture involves farming systems that areenvironmentally sound, profitable, productive, and compatible with

    socio-economic conditions

    Sustainable Agriculture: GoalThe major goals of this approach are thus to develop economically

    viable agro-ecosystems and to enhance the quality of the environment,

    so that farmlands will remain productive indefinitely.

    To conserve natural resource base

    To protect the environment

    To enhance prosperity for a longer period of time

    Sustaining house-hold food security of the farmers

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    Advantages of Sustainable Agriculture:

    o Contributes to environmental conservation.

    o Prevents pollution:

    When sustainable farming is carried the waste so produced remains

    inside the farming ecosystem. Thus it cannot in any way cause

    pollution or build-up in the external environment.

    o Reduction in cost:

    Sustainable agriculture minimizes the use and cost of purchasing

    fossil fuel and reduces the transportation costs. This helps in reducing

    the overall cost involved I the process of farming.

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    o Biodiversity:

    Sustainable agriculture results in biodiversity as the farms produce

    different kinds of animals and plants. Plants are seasonally rotatedabout the fields, which results in enriched soil, prevention of diseases

    and outbreaks of pests.

    o

    Beneficial for animals:Animals are cared for, treated humanely and with respect. All animals

    living in the farm are facilitated to exhibit their natural behaviours like

    grazing, pecking or, rooting. This helps them to grow in a natural way.

    o Economically beneficial for farmers.

    When engage themselves into sustainable agriculture they receive a

    fair wage for their effort. As a result their dependence on government

    subsidies is reduced, thereby strengthening the rural communities.

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    o Social equality.

    When sustainable agriculture is practiced workers are offered

    competitive salaries and benefits. They are treated with humanity;

    provided with safe work environment, food and proper living

    conditions.

    o Beneficial for environment.

    Sustainable agriculture decreases the use of non-renewable

    environmental resources and is thus quite beneficial for the

    environment.

    o This special type of agriculture and farming technique makes utmost

    use of the environment and that too without causing any harm to it.

    Products obtained do not contain any inorganic chemicals like

    insecticides and pesticides. All these factors make sustainable

    agriculture a preferred choice of farmers all over the world.

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    What is Integrated Farming System ?

    Integration of two or more appropriate combination of enterprises like crop,dairy, piggery, fishery, poultry, bee keeping etc, for each farm according tothe availability of resources to sustain and satisfy the necessities of thefarmer.

    The Integrated Farming System (IFS) has revolutionized ConventionalFarming of Livestock, Aquaculture, Horticulture, Agro-Industry and Alliedactivities in some countries, especially in tropical and subtropical regionsthat are not arid. Farming all over the world is not very performing unlessrelatively big inputs are added to sustain yields and very often compromisethe economic viability as well as the ecological sustainability.

    IFS can turn all those existing disastrous farming systems, especially in thepoorest countries, into economically viable and ecologically balancedsystems that will not only alleviate poverty, but can even eradicate thissource completely.

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    Integrated Farming In Low Land

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    Integrated Farming In Up Land

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    Advantages of Integrated Farming System

    Increase productivity & profitability

    Ensure food & nutritional security

    Provide a cleaner & pollution free environment

    Impart sustainability to the ecosystem

    Recycle un-utilised resources efficiently

    Enhance employment opportunities

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    Generate income round the year

    Adopt innovative technology

    Solve energy & fodder crisis

    Avoid deforestation

    Enhance opportunities for agriculture based industries

    Improved standard of living of the farm families in spheres of food,

    clothing, shelter,health & education.

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    Why Integrated Farming System ?

    Shrinkage in area under cropping:

    Area under cropping is decreasing day by day to urbanization,

    industrialization, population, construction of buildings & highways.

    As a result there is sharp declining in the per capital carrying capacity

    of the land. The population of India is expected to increase to 137 &166 crores, respectively, in 2030 & 2050 AD, while the cultivable land

    will decline to 141.3 & 131.3 million.

    Small & Fragmented holding:The average holding of a farm in India has been declining & over

    80% of operational holdings are below the size of 1.0 hct. In Odisha,

    82% of the farmers are considered small & marginal with an average

    holding size of 0.8 hct.

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    Seasonal nature of income & employment & out-migration:

    Cropping activities in rain fed areas areas are restricted to four

    months in rainy season. Employment opportunities are scarce in otherseasons. This leads to large-scale migration of male farmers to cities

    in search of work. Round the year employment opportunities should

    be there to check out-migration from rural areas.

    Deterioration of resource base:

    The ultimate goal of sustainable agriculture is to conserve of human

    population over a longer period. This can be achieved by seeking the

    optimal use of internal production inputs in a way that provide

    acceptable levels of sustainable crop productivity & livestock

    production resulting in economically profitable return.

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    Household requirement:

    A country or state is said to achieve complete food & nutritional

    security if each & every person is able to consume a minimumquantum & quality of various food ingredients i.e adequate &

    balanced diet on a regular basis, minimum education. Other

    requirements include timber system approach is essential for meeting

    all these diverse needs from limited land holdings of small & marginal

    farmer.

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    Core Characteristic of Integrated Farmer System:

    It is holistic

    It is problem solving

    It envisages location specific technology solution

    It is farmer-participatory

    It recognizes Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK)

    It adopts Bottom up approach

    It is interdisciplinary

    It emphasizes extensive On-farm activities It is gender sensitive

    It recognizes interdependencies among multiple clients

    It focuses on actual adoption

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    Components of IFS(Integrated farming system):

    Water source (pond, ditch,well)

    Fence (low cost live fencing)

    Field crops

    Agri-horti system/multi storied cropping

    Olericulture: Olericulture is the science of vegetable growing, dealingwith the culture of non-woody (herbaceous )plants for food.Olericulture deals with the production, storage, processing andmarketing of vegetables. It encompasses crop establishment,including cultivar selection, seedbed preparation and establishmentof vegetable crops by seed and transplants.

    Animals & shed

    Farm house

    Miscellaneous-apiary, pisciculture, poultry, vermiculture, mushroomproduction

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceoushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous
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