Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Rudragouda F Channagouda, AY Hugar, Vijay S Danaraddi and Chandru Patil

Abstract:
The Front line demonstration was conducted in the field of Shri. Dayanand Murthy, Ambalappad of Devaramarikunte village of Chitradurga district, Karnataka from April 2016 to March 2020 to study the “An integrated farming system- Approach to Doubling the Farmer’s Income and Better Recycling of Farm Resources ”. This study compared the income of Dayanand Murthy before and after adoption of integrated farming system. The most crucial intervention is the introduction of banana, arecanut, pomegranate, cluster apple, coconut, silver, hebbevu, red sandal and Jamun as inter crop in arecanut garden followed by cultivation of vegetable crops, sheep, poultry and fishery. Shri. Dayanand Murthy received a net annual income of about ₹ 5,97,550 through his promoting of Integrated Farming Practices as compared to non-adoption of integrated farming system (₹ 79500). Total 960 man-days were generated in integrated farming system model throughout the year. He recycles farm waste into healthy manure through vermicompost and biodigestor unit. His practice of integrated farming meets over 68% of nutrient requirement through recycling of bio-mass available within the farm itself. He had cultivated sunn hemp and horsegram as intercrop in arecanut and incorporated the bio-mass as green manure crop. In his farm produced 10 t of vermicompost and 2 t of cow dung with worth of ₹ 55,000. IFS model has produced about 38942 kg of recyclable raw material year^-1 from different components. Out of this, 17849 kg year^-1 of recycled produce has been generated and re-cycled within the system. The farmer adopted integrated farming system having a sustainable yield index of 0.72 and sustainable value index of 0.76 and system economic efficiency of 425, respectively.