Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Khushbu and Kanta Sabharwal

Abstract:
In India, the farmers maintain different enterprises for their complimentary and supplementary nature and for ensuring sustainable livelihood from time immemorial. After the advent of green revolution in late-1960s and economic liberalization in early-1990s, the farmers gradually started focusing on a few enterprises due to several imposing factors including shrinking farm sizes, fluctuating commodity prices, livelihood diversification and shortage of labor during peak agriculture season. It had a severe impact on food and nutritional security of millions of poor farm households. The anguish of farmers is often expressed in terms of their agitation in one or the other part of the country, unwillingness to continue farming and increasing demands of compensating their economic loss. The study entitled “Assessment of Integrated Farming System in Haryana” was conducted in two Western and Eastern agro-climatic zones of Haryana state, covering two districts of each zone and three villages from each district with random sample techniques with 120 respondents. The study's primary focus was to determine the impact of the Integrated Farming System on farmers income and nutritional security of the family. It was found that majority of respondents showed positive impact on fulfillments of need requirement of the respondents through income generated in IFS, household income, nutritional status, self-improvement, economic improvement, environmental improvement, livelihood security in adoption of Integrated Farming System.