ARD STATIC

Farming System
 Farming System
Farming System is an appropriate mix of farm enterprises and the means available
to the farmers to raise them for profitability
 Classification of Farming System

• Rice based
Cropping System • root based
Semi Commercial • Grain legume based
System • Agrisilvicultural
Mixed System • Silvopastoral • Subsistence
• Agrosilvopastoral • Shifting
Farming Systems Traditional cultivation
• Nomadic
Perennial Crops • Plantations herding
Commercial
System
Livestock • Ranching
 Farming
System

Semi Commercial Traditional Commercial

✓ Subsistence
✓ Shifting Perennial Crops Livestock
Cropping System Mixed System cultivation
 Types of Farming System in India

Subsistence Farming System Conventional Farming System

Alternate Farming System

Specialized Farming System Integrated Farming System

 Practice Question

Q. A form of farming in which nearly all the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain
the farmer and the farmer’s family is known as __________.

A. Nomadic herding
B. Mixed System
C. Commercial System
D. Subsistence farming
E. None of the above

Ans: Subsistence farming

 Previous Year
Practice Question
Question

Q. Mixed farming belongs to which of the following farming systems?

A. Commercial system
B. Semi-commercial system
C. Nomadic herding
D. Subsistence farming
E. None of the above

Ans: Semi commercial system

 Previous Year
Practice Question
Question

Q. What is Slash and Burn agriculture?

A. Jhum cultivation
B. Organic cultivation
C. Nomadic herding
D. Subsistence farming
E. None of the above

Ans: Jhum cultivation

 Previous Year
Practice Question
Question

Q. An interdependent, interrelated often interlocking production system based on few crops,

animals, and related subsidiary enterprises in such a way that maximizes the utilization of
resources of each system and minimizes the negative effect of these enterprises on the
environment is known as __________.

A. Specialized Farming System

B. Organic Farming System
C. Subsistence farming
D. Integrated Farming System
E. None of the above

Ans: Integrated Farming System

 Introduction- Organic Farming

Cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and
in good health

No Use of Maximum Extent Feasible

synthetic inputs: Relies Upon:
X Fertilizers
✓ Crop Rotations
X No GMO
✓ Crop Residues
X Pesticides
✓ Animal Manures
X Herbicides
✓ Off-farm Organic Waste
X Hormones
✓ Mineral Grade Rock
X Feed additives Additives
 Components of Organic Farming

Crop Rotation

Crops are Organic Manure

changed from Crop residue utilization
year to year Manures are plant
and animal wastes Biogas production
according to a technology is the
planned sequence that are used as
nutrients, after their promising potential to
decomposition. deal with Waste
Management in Organic
Farming.
 Components of Organic Farming

Bio fertilizer Bio Pesticides Vermicompost

Micro-organisms use to Living organisms, Vermicompost is the product

promote growth by which are pathogenic of the decomposition process
increasing the supply or (disease causing) for the (Vermicomposting) using
availability of primary pest of interest. various species of worms,
nutrients. usually earthworms
 Practice Question

Q. What is the farming system that uses natural pest controls and biofertilizers and in
which simultaneously the use of any type of chemical and synthetic pesticides, fertilizer is
completely avoided?

A. Chemical-Free Farming
B. Natural Farming
C. Organic Farming
D. Traditional Farming
E. None of the above

Ans. Organic Farming

 Practice
Previous Question
Year Question

Q. Which of the following is not a component of organic farming?

A. Crop rotation
B. Vermicomposting
C. Biofertilizers
D. Crop residue utilization
E. None of the above
F. None of the above
Ans: None of the above
 Previous
Practice
Year
Question
Question

Q. Which of the following microorganisms absorbs the nutrients from the surrounding and
provides them to the plants?

A. Vermicompost
B. Mulch
C. Green Manure
D. Biofertilizers
E. None

Ans: Biofertilizers
 Practice Question

Q. _________ living organisms, which are pathogenic (disease-causing) for the pest of
interest. ?

A. Biofertilizer
B. Biocides
C. Biopesticides
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

Ans. Biopesticides
 Practice
Practice Question
Yourself

Q. How long does it take to transition land formed conventionally to organic status?
A. 3 years
B. 2 years
C. 5 years
D. 1 year
E. 6 years

Ans. 3 years
 Modern Farming

Modern farming means farming using modern techniques and technology

Hydroponics system Aeroponics system Aquaponics system Tissue culture system

Technique of growing Practice of growing plants Aquaponics is a food Cultivation of plant cells,
plants using a water- in an air or mist production system tissues, or organs on specially
based nutrient solution environment without the that couples formulated nutrient media
rather than soil use of any substrate aquaculture
 Vertical Farming Precision Agriculture
Vertical farming is the practice of The science of improving crop yields and
growing produce in vertically stacked assisting management decisions using
layers. high-technology sensor and analysis
tools
 Other Important Concepts

Agricultural intensification Sustainable Agriculture Climate Resilient Agriculture

Process of increasing the inputs of Farming in a sustainable way, Ability of an agricultural system to
agricultural resources (e.g., seeds, meets society's present food anticipate and prepare for, as well
labor, fertilizers, pesticides, demands, without compromising as adapt to, absorb and recover
technologies, knowledge) to the ability of current or future from the impacts of changes in
increase the level of yield per unit generations to meet their needs climate and extreme weather
of farmland or pasture
 Categories of Dryland Agriculture
Particular Dry farming Dryland farming Rainfed Farming
Rainfall/annum(mm) <750 750-1150 >1150
Moisture availability Acute shortage Shortage Enough
Crop growing season <75 days 75 - 120days >120 days
Growing region Arid Semi-arid Humid

Cropping systems Single crop/Inter cropping Single crop/Inter cropping Inter/ Multicropping

Dry spells Most common Less frequent No occurrence

Crop failure More frequent Less frequent Rare

Constraints Wind Erosion Wind erosion/water erosion Water erosion

Moisture Conservation Moisture conservation practices

Measures required Proper drainage required
practices & drainage for vertisols
 Practice Question

Q. In which of the following techniques plants are grown using a water-based nutrient
solution rather than soil, and can include an aggregate substrate, or growing media, such
as vermiculite, coconut coir, or perlite?

A. Aeroponics
B. Hydroponics
C. Aquaponics
D. None of the above
E. All of the above

Ans. Hydroponics
 Practice Question

Q. Which of the following can be described as a technology-enabled approach to farming

management that observes, measures, and analyzes the needs of individual fields and
crops?

A. Precision Agriculture
B. Digital Agriculture
C. Extensive Agriculture
D. All of the above
E. Only A and B

Ans. Only A and B

 Practice Question

Q. Which of the following types of agriculture rests on the principle that we must meet the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs?

A. Rainfed Agriculture
B. Sustainable Agriculture
C. Organic Farming
D. Natural Farming
E. Integrated Farming

Ans. Sustainable Agriculture

 Practice Questions

Q. Cultivation of crops in areas where average annual rainfall is _____is known as dryland
farming

A. less than 500 mm

B. less than 750 mm
C. 750 to 1150 mm
D. More than 1150 mm
E. None of the above

Ans. 750 to 1150 mm