Horti-Business Management

Lowland farming system

• Field Experiments were conducted at TNAU, Coimbatore in lowland involving cropping, poultry, piggery, duck, goat, pigeon, fishery and mushroom enterprises in all possible combinations with a view to recycle the residue and by products of one component over the other. The recycling process could reduce the cost of production per unit of grain meat, milk, egg, edible mushroom, biogas etc and there by widen the gap between the production cost and net return. In one-hectare farm, an area of 0.90 ha assigned for crop activity and the remaining area of 0.10 ha to fishpond. 1000 polyculture fingerlings will be reared in 0.10 ha fishpond. Either 50 nos. of babkok layers or hundred productive pairs of pigeon will be linked to supplement the feed requirement of 1,000 fingerlings. Mushroom with an average production of 5 kg day-1 was found to be a balanced activity.
  
• Resources like feed for poultry, fish and pigeon, substrate for mushroom production, organic manure from the wastes can be secured at the least cost through proper integration in IFS.