The Indian Society of Extension Education
Year : 2014, Volume : 50, Issue : 1and2
First page : ( 59) Last page : ( 62)
Print ISSN : 0537-1996.

Integrated Farming Systems Approach for Income Enhancement and Employment Generation in North-West India

Singh Ravinder, M.Sc scholar, Riar T. S., Associate Professor

Dept. of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab)

Online published on 7 August, 2015.

Abstract

A study was conducted during 2011–12 in Punjab to find out the productivity, profitability and employment generation of integrated farming system as compared to conventional cropping system. The study comprised of two integrated farming systems viz., crop + floriculture and crop + bee-keeping. Both these integrated farming systems were productive and profitable than that of sole cropping system. The net returns increased in the tune of 29.53 per cent and 19.09 per cent per hectare with inclusion of floriculture and bee-keeping enterprises, respectively over sole cropping system. The study also indicated that crop + floriculture farming system generated 31.03 mandays/hectare/annum/farm employment for family, 46.14 mandays/hectare/annum/farm for hired labour and 77.17 mandays/hectare/annum/farm as total labour. In case of crop + bee-keeping, it was observed that employment generated through crop + bee-keeping farming system for family labour was 29.61 mandays/hectare/annum/farm, for hired labour was 40.12 mandays/hectare/annum/farm and for total labour was 69.73 mandays/hectare/annum/farm.

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Keywords

Integrated farming systems, income enhancement, employment generation.

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