Integrated Farming System: Enhancing Productivity, Profitability and Employment for Small and Marginal Farmers in Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra, India
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: A field experiment on integrated farming system under irrigated condition was done at AICRP on Integrated Farming System, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola Maharashtra during 2022-23 to 2023-24.In present study various treatments were formulated by combining various enterprises with crop components for identification of the best-integrated farming system (IFS) in terms of higher cotton equivalent yield, system productivity, employment generation and profitability.It was found that treatment T 8 emerged as best treatment with highest GMR (` 921892 /ha), NMR (` 489509/ha), cotton equivalent yield (12401 kg/ha), system productivity (33.98 kg/ha /day), profitability (1340 ` /ha/day) and employment generation (561 Man days year -1 ).According to the present findings, the IFS strategy can increase employment, profitability, and productivity of small and marginal farmers.
Source: PLANT ARCHIVES
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411418149