INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM MODEL
By :-
SIMTA SHARMA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PCTE GROUP OF INSTITUTES,
BADDOWAL, LUDHIANA (PUNJAB, INDIA)
Integrated Farming System for Wet Land
Wet Land Farming
• Also called as low land farming
• Irrigation is through Canals, Ponds or Tanks
Types of IFS
• Crop based IFS
• Live stock based IFS
• Tree based IFS
• Horticulture based IFS
Features of Wetland
• Cropping : 9–12 months in a year.
• Source of Water : Canals, Ponds, Tank
• Climate : Arid and Semiarid
• Problem : Over irrigated/water logging.
• Fertilizer application : Liberal to maximize the yield.
• Other problems : Drainage, soil health due to continuous
submergence, salt affected soils, mainly surface salinity
Components/enterprises proposed for IFS under wetland conditions
• Multiple cropping including sequential cropping and multi-tier cropping, inter
and relay cropping.
• Integrating livestock, cow, goat, piggery etc., along with cropping
• Combining fish (Aquaculture) cum poultry in the existing system.
• Agro-forestry on tree components in the existing system.
• Inclusion of mulberry cultivation and sericulture or lac culture with crops.
• Mushroom cultivation with cropping.
• Inclusion of apiary and horticultural crops etc.
IFS Models for Coastal Ecosystem, Tamil Nadu, India
Crop : rice
Early duration – Rohini, Cauvery,
Medium duration – IR 20, TRY-1
Long duration – Pankaj, Jaganath
Flood resistant – IR43, ADT40, TRY-1
Livestock system
Cows, Poultry, Goat, Fish, Prawn and Duck
• Prawn :
• Area of 400 m2 of water canal, 12–16 kg of prawn
• Rs. 50–60 per kg
• Prawn culture can be integrated with duckery, poultry, agricultural,
horticulture or piggery
• Fishes :
• roghu, catla and mirgal
• Tree Crops
• coconut, cashew nut and jackfruit
• forest tree species are Casuarina sp., Acacia sp., Eucalyptus
terticornis, Pongamia pinnata, Azadirachta indica and Anacardium sp
IFS Model for single crop wetland area (Periyar-Vaigai-command
area), Tamil Nadu, India
Crop + vegetables + poultry + fish
Rice – Maize
Rice – Green gram
Rice – Groundnut
Rice – Green manure
Vegetables- Bhendi – Tomato–Brinjal
Bitter gourd – Moringa–chillies
Poultry unit Layer –
. Fishery unit & Mushroom cultivation if condition prevails.
IFS model for a double crop wetland,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Components
• Cropping–rice
• Fish
• Poultry
• Mush room
• Cropping
• Rice–Rice–Maize
• Rice–Rice–Ground nut
• Rice–Rice–Sesamum
Integrated Farming System for Irrigated
Upland
• Also be called irrigated dry land
• Features
• Farming will be for around 9-12 months.
• The sources of water are wells and deep bore wells in addition to
rainfall.
• The climate is arid to humid.
• Water management is the main criteria, i.e., economic use of water.
• Fertilizer use–liberal to maximize the yield.
• Crops
• Crops that can tolerate mild winter
• Legumes – green gram, black gram, soybean, and groundnut.
• Cereals – maize, sorghum, pearl millet and ragi.
• Other crops – cotton, sunflower and vegetables.
• Crops that can tolerate cool winter are wheat, barely, mustard and
potato.
Integrated farming system model for irrigated
upland system at Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India
• (Crop + Dairy + Biogas + Mushroom)
• Crop Management Area (ha)
1. Cotton + green gram – Maize
2. Soybean – Maize-Cotton
3. Cumbu Napier grass
4. Lucerne
5. Leucanea leucocephala 150 trees (border trees)
• . Farm shed Dairy Component – 3 Jersey cows + 2 calves Biogas
(For effective recycling of farm and animal waste, a biogas unit
• Spawn and mushroom production – 1.5–2.0 kg/days
Integrated Farming System for Dry Land
• Crops
• Cereal + Pigeon Pea
• Cereal + Cotton
• Single crop area - Sorghum, Chickpea, Sunflower, Coriander
• Double crop area - Sorghum/Pearl millet/Pulse during rainy period.
• Sunflower/Safflower/Chickpea during post rainy period.
IFS model for dry lands of Coimbatore
• (low rainfall < 700 mm)
• Sorghum + Cowpea (grain).
• Sorghum + Cowpea (fodder)
• Leucanea + Cencherus ciliaris
• Acacia senegal + Cenchrus ciliaris
• Prosophis Cineraria + Cenchrus ciliaris
• Tellicherry goats (20 does + 1 buck)
