Farming system
Farming system is a system of growing
crops with allied components of agriculture which is inter-related in terms of soil,
implements, labour, capital, energy and other inputs. Theoretically it encompasses
various components that are interrelated and interact among themselves. It is basically a resource management strategy to accomplish
economic and sustained production to meet various requirement of farm household
while conserving resource and sustaining environmental quality. Integration of
farm enterprises such as crops/cropping systems, animals, pisciculture, agro-forestry,
poultry, sericulture, etc. enhances resources exploitation promoting resource
flow from a system to another through residue recycling, increases resource use
efficiency, curtails of risk, diminishes the production cost, ensure ecological
balance, deliver livelihood options and ensure food and nutritional security of
poor and marginal farmers.