About Lesson
Agriculture and Farming System :
- The agriculture system may be defined as a whole complex of strategies and operations in agriculture, including all the variations in the size and complexity of enterprises in which changes in production processes are determined by the interaction of existing biophysical, socioeconomic, and policy environment.
- Farming system can be defined as an arrangement of farm enterprises and their management in response to biophysical and socioeconomic factors to fulfill family goals.
Why study farming systems?
- To identify and understand the existing farming systems in specific region
- To access the relative viability of existing FS
- To formulate FS models for different farming situations
- To ensure optimal utilization and conservation of available resources
- To gain sustainable production by conserving the resource base
- To increase the profitability of farm by a suitable combination of main and allied enterprises