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    This document provides the lecture schedule and references for a course on farming system and sustainable agriculture. It outlines 15 topics that will be covered in the course's lectures, including the scope and concepts of farming systems, types of farming systems and factors affecting them, sustainable agriculture problems and strategies, and integrated farming systems. It also lists 7 references that will be used.

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    AGRON-223 Farming System and Sustainable Agriculture 1(1+0)

    Theory
    Farming System-scope, importance, and concept, Types and systems of farming system
    and factors affecting types of farming, Farming system components and their maintenance,
    Cropping system and pattern, multiple cropping system, Efficient cropping system and their
    evaluation, Allied enterprises and their importance, Tools for determining production and
    efficiencies in cropping and farming system; Sustainable agriculture-problems and its impact on
    agriculture, indicators of sustainability, adaptation and mitigation, conservation agriculture
    strategies in agriculture, HEIA, LEIA and LEISA and its techniques for sustainability, Integrated
    farming system-historical background, objectives and characteristics, components of IFS and its
    advantages, Site specific development of IFS model for different agro-climatic zones, resource
    use efficiency and optimization techniques, Resource cycling and flow of energy in different
    farming system, farming system and environment, Visit of IFS model in different agro-climatic
    zones of nearby states University/ institutes and farmers field.

    Lecture schedule: Theory


    S.N. No. of
    Topic
    lectures
    1. Farming System-scope, importance, and concept 1
    2. Types and systems of farming system and factors affecting types of farming 1
    3. Farming system components and their maintenance, 1
    4. Cropping system and pattern, multiple cropping system, Efficient cropping 1
    system and their evaluation
    5. Allied enterprises and their importance, Tools for determining production 2
    and efficiencies in cropping and farming system
    6. Sustainable agriculture-problems and its impact on agriculture 1
    7. indicators of sustainability, adaptation and mitigation, 1
    8. Conservation agriculture strategies in agriculture 1
    9. LEIA (Low external input agriculture),LEISA 1
    10. HEIA (High external input agriculture) 1
    11. Integrated farming system-historical background, objectives and 1
    characteristics,
    12. components of IFS and its advantages, 1
    13. Site specific development of IFS model for different agro-climatic zones, 1
    resource use efficiency and optimization techniques,
    14. Resource cycling and flow of energy in different farming system, 1
    15. farming system and environment, Visit of IFS model in different agro- 1
    climatic zones of nearby states University/ institutes and farmers field.

    References:
    1. Panda, S.C.2004. Cropping Systems and Farming Systems, Agrobios (India), Jodhpur.
    2. Panda, S.C.2012. Modern Concepts and Advance Principles in Crop Production.
    Agrobios (India), Jodhpur
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    3. Sharma, Arun K. 2002. A Handbook of Organic Farming, Agrobios (India) Ltd., Jodhpur
    4. Balasubramaniyan, P. and Palaniappan, S.P.2016. Principles and Practices of Agronomy
    (2nd edition), Agrobios (India), Jodhpur.
    5. Shukla, Rajeev K. 2004. Sustainable Agriculture, Surbhee Publications, Jaipur
    6. Palaniappan, S.P.1985. Cropping Systems in the Tropics: Principles and Management,
    Wiley Easter Ltd. and TNAU, Coimbatore.
    7. Reddy S. R. 2016. Principles of Agronomy (5 th edition), Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana.
    8.

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