Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Manish Kumar, Ankit Singh, Mohd Wamiq, Ravi Kumar, Satvaan Singh, Ankit Rai, Suneel Kumar and Amit Kumar

Abstract:
Integrated farming systems (IFS) and perspectives on them have changed across time and space. Crop and livestock yields grew over the past 20 years, along with worries about the socio-economic and biophysical trade-offs involved. In response to issues brought on by a predominately reductionist research methodology and a cornucopian view of external inputs, farming systems research (FSR) was applied to agricultural development. Modern technology either generated unintended unfavorable trade-offs or were not welcomed. This essay examines FSR definitions and forms as well as the necessity of modernizing how we approach agricultural growth. Numerous efforts have been made at the ICAR and State Agricultural Universities level to increase the productivity of the various farming system parts, such as crops, dairy, livestock, poultry, piggery, goat keeping, duckery, apiculture, sericulture, horticulture, mushroom cultivation, etc., but their integration into the farming system as a whole has lagged. The integration is designed so that the output of one component should be used as the input for other businesses with strong mutually beneficial relationships. According to the number, kind, and management of firms, preliminary research findings supported the advantages of productivity increases of 30–50%. Here, information on farming systems is given in a methodical manner. The methodology is described in light of the work completed thus far to achieve better productivity, profitability, and sustainable production opportunities, ensure reliable income, and promote agricultural-oriented industry.