Bangalore, On the 3rd Day of MOM for New 2023 Batch, Dr.Nagaraja GN, has conducted a session on integrated farming systems. Integrated Farming System (IFS) is an innovative and unique approach to promote integrated land use and animal management technologies as well as resource management capabilities among various categories of farmers of the rural populace. It is a micro approach and the entire farm of an individual farmer is considered as a unit. This approach calls for concerted educational efforts for the farmers with a primary focus of maximising the net income of farmers over a period of time.
This is closely related to the realistic planning of farms of selected farmers in order to help to generate maximum family employment and to get sustained stable net income from the entire holdings. It assumes great importance to evolve sound management of resources to enhance farm productivity, reduce the degradation of environmental quality, improve the quality of life for farmers, and above all maintain in farm production and productivity.
In short, the overall objective of the approach is to evolve technically feasible, economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially acceptable farming system models by integrating crops with appropriate combination of animal husbandry activities to take care of supplementary and complementary relationships for rainfed and irrigated areas. This helps in generating sustained stable income and higher family employment from the entire farm. The specific objectives of this approach are:
- To encourage farmers to take up improvements in all the crops grown by them by demonstrating new agricultural technologies,
- To assist farmers in introducing other subsidiary enterprises like dairy, poultry, fisheries, sericulture, sheep/goat, piggery etc.,
- To help farmers improve their standard of living by working with them over a period of time, and
- To develop Integrated Farming System Units as centers of agricultural development in the local areas.
Among the New 2023 batch, many students were Agricultural graduates. The faculty have divided the whole class into four groups to build IFS models. In each group, four agricultural graduates were included for active involvement in an activity. With the resources at hand and the time allotted, the students constructed Integrated Farming Systems models that are both attractive and highly informative.
This group activity was carried out with the objective of involving and creating awareness among non-agricultural students to know the importance of IFS approach to utilize and combine all the available farm resources efficiently and economically to get sustained stable income from the entire farm holdings and to create maximum family employment.
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