Understanding Integrated Farming In Better Ways
02/02/2015 00:00
One of the common and biggest occupations of the world is Farming. However, despite the fact that farming is the main source of food supply, it is considered to be the most crucial occupation from the economic revenues perspective and also from the livelihood perspective. The other aspect of farming is that it is highly dependent on natural resources. Considering this feature of farming as an occupation and importance, there has been a lot of research happening in this field to make the occupation less risky and more stable. One of the key introductions of this research is integrated farming.
As farming is a conglomeration of many activities, integrated farming is that technique that looks at farming from a holistic approach. In other words, integrated farming is characterised as a whole farm management system that focuses at delivering ways and means for sustainable agriculture. Many agricultural experts define integrated farming as a dynamic technique that can be used in all sorts of farming systems across the globe. Detailing and improvement are the core points of this system. In addition, natural farming is also popular for the fact that it has the ability of efficiently conglomerates modern tools and technologies with traditional practices depending upon the land to be cultivated.
Not only does it have various salient features, integrated farming has many benefits too which are like as:
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Helps improve productivity. In other words, enhances economic yield per unit area per unit time with the help of growing the crop and allied enterprises
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Helps to manage waste. In other words, gives options of effectively using waste material in the most effective way by reducing cost of production, utilization of waste resulting to economic balance and reuse of waste in a productive way
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Organic supplementation through fruitful utilization of by-products of linked element is done thus giving an opportunity to maintain the potentiality of production base for a longer period of time
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Recycling the waste in the most effective way by using them as manures, thereby helping in balancing the ecosystem too by minimising environmental pollution
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Helps identify a substitute source to reduce dependency on fossil energy source in less time. Establishing effective recycling technique for organic wastes to generate and utilise them as biogas.
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Ensuring complete usage of the land under cultivation
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Trying to enhance the ultimate use of all that is cultivated in the land.
Thus, with such benefits undoubtedly integrated farming has proved to be an asset to farming as an occupation. In addition to various organisations that have been contributing to farming, is Trivedi FoundationTM that has managed to do great contribution to this field. Under the expert guidance of Mahendra Trivedi, Trivedi Science has transformed nearly 40 seed types.