Advantages of Integrated Farming System-IFS

What is Integrated Farming system?
Integrated farming system (IFS), is one method of farming system, where different agricultural enterprises are linked together in order to provide inputs for other agricultural enterprises

Model of IFS
Crop cultivation-Dairy Farming-Poultry Farming-Fishery-Crop

Crop Cultivation

• Crop cultivation is the regular activity of a farmers to take up.
• crop cultivation provides the input for Dairy Farming along with small Income for the Farmer
• Growing crops like maize, pulses,paddy gives feed for the Diary animals (Crop residues), which reduces the investment in diary farming

Dairy Farming

• Dairy farming is one of the growing Agricultural enterprise, 
• Overall milk production of India is increasing by 5% every year.
• Dairy Farming is Profitable when we prepare the green and dry cattle feed by own.
• Dairy farmers depends on the ready feed will have face more investment on feed to fulfill the need of a cattle.
• Integrated farming system with suitable crops helps the farmer to reduce the investment
• The manure obtained by the dairy farming will used for organic crop production and as a part of feed for Fishery farming.

Poultry Farming

• The farmer who has sufficient space can take up the poultry farming along with other commodity
• Chicken which feeds on soil insects, food residues will avoid the part of insects which can attack the crops.

Fishery Farming

• Not all the farmers can take up the fishery farming, it needs basic requirements to take up the Fishery farming.