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Integrated Farming System

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

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Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), Rahuri

SDG Stories in Agriculture

The IFS or Integrated Farming System comes under the Farmer FIRST Programme (FFP), which is an ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) initiative to move beyond the production and productivity, to privilege the smallholder agriculture and complex, diverse and risk prone realities of majority of the farmers through enhancing farmers-scientists interface.

Region

Chinchvihire and Kangar villages in Ahmednagar District, in Maharashtra, India

Description

The project entitled "Socio-economic Empowerment of Farmers through Farming System Interventions for Sustainable Agriculture Development in Ahmednagar District" under ICAR Farmer FIRST Programme has been implemented by the university since 2016-17.

The project focuses on the Integrated Farming System (IFS) modules and is being implemented in Chinchvihire and Kangar Villages of Ahmednagar district. Around 750 farm families are involved in this programme. The various IFS components include pulses and cereals production technologies, horticultural crops along with dairy management, farm pond fishery, goatry and backyard poultry. This would lead to increasing crop productivity, better risk management and finally to better income. This technology application approach needs to be out scaled and up scaled for the benefit of both research and extension system.

Status of the project

Ongoing and seeks to double farmers income by 2022

Key Results:

For a plot of 1 HectareGross Return: Rs 7,13,353 Net return Rs 4,50,054

Way forward

MPKV plans to implement IFS in several other villages across Maharashtra and promoting the adoption of diversified farming across farmers.

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