Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

SPECIALISED FARMING

• A specialized farm is one in which 50 per cent or more receipts / income are derived from one source.

Advantages of specialized farming are

• Best suited to particular soil, climate, topography and other physical conditions like market type.
• Work easily get reduced to routine.
• Better marketing.
• Better management.
• Less equipments and labour needed.
• Efficiency and skill of personnel increased.
• Costly and efficient machinery can be kept.
• Farmer can secure complete mastery over the conditions, problems of production, processing and sale.
• Under favourable and specific conditions extremely profitable.
• eg. Commercial and large scale dairy and poultry farms