Introduction

Introduction

    • Farm is an independent business unit. Generally the owner farmer manages the farm. In India there are 83.7 million marginal farms (< 1.0 Ha), 23.9 million small farms (1.0 - 2.0 Ha), 14.1 million semi medium farms (> 2.0 - 4.0 Ha) and 6.3 million medium farms (> 4.0 - 10.0 Ha) and 1.09 million large farms ( > 10 ha).
    • Horticulture farms are farms where predominantly horticultural crops such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants, plantation crops etc., are grown and income from these crops account for the major share of the gross revenue generated from the farm.
    • Farmer applies various resources (natural and manmade) in the farm with the objective to cultivate crops and manage agricultural allied enterprises and generate maximum profit from the economic activity. In this lecture the concept, farm management, its nature scope and characteristics are explained.

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