Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

The study was undertaken in rainfed area of Southern Telangana Zone i.e., Mahbubnagar district using multi-stage sampling technique. The analysis proceeded with the major farming systems in the study area i.e., Crop, Crop -Cattle, Crop - Cattle - Goat, Crop - Cattle – Sheep designated as FS-I, FS-II, FS-III and FS-IV. Cobb-Douglas production function was employed to analyse resource use efficiencies of Integrated farming systems.

The highly adopted farming system (FS-II) shows constant returns to scale, FS-I & FS-III shows decreasing returns to scale and FS- IV shows increasing returns to scale. Livestock integrated farming systems (FS-II, FS-III and FS-IV) indicate optimal allocation of cattle, except for Crop - Cattle – Goat (over-allocated). The size of goat herd in FS-III and size of sheep flock in FS-IV, were over allocated indicating more scope for reorganisation to achieve highest resource use efficiency.