Diverse Methods of Poultry Farming and Agricultural Practices
•
Organic farming endorses the concept that the soil, plants,
animals and human beings are linked. In philosophical terms
organic farming means “farming in sprits of organic relationship”.
•
In this system everything is connected with everything else.
Therefore, its goal is to create an integrated, environmentally
sound, safe and economically sustainable agriculture production
system.
•
The farmer manages self-regulating ecological and biological
processes for sustainable and economic production of products.
•
Organic farming systems are based on development of biological
diversity and the maintenance and Replenishment of soil
productivity. The soil in this system is a living entity.
•
It conserves soil fertility and soil erosion through implementation
of appropriate conservation practices.
ORGANIC FARMING
•
Meeting crop need of nitrogen through nitrogen fixation by leguminous
crops in the cropping systems and recycling of farm organic materials
including crop residues and livestock wastes, Importance of crop rotation,
natural predators, resistance varieties and other agronomic manipulations
of plant protection including weed management, and Biodiversity
management, soil and environmental health.
•
The natural ecosystems neither use any input nor demands unreasonable
quantities of water.
•
The art of organic farming is to make the best use of ecological principles
and processes.
•
The nutrients go back to the soil when leaves fall or plants die. Part of the
biomass is eaten by various animals (including insects), and their
excrements return the nutrients to the soil.
•
In the soil, a huge number of soil organisms are involved in the
decomposition of organic material which makes nutrients available to the
plant roots again.
•
Organic nutrient management is based on biodegradable material, i.e.
plant and animal residues which can be decomposed. Nutrient cycles are
closed with the help of composting, mulching, green manuring, crop
rotation etc.
•
Processors constitute the main users of contracts, as the
guaranteed supply enables them to maximize utilization of
their processing capacity.
•
Contracts with farmers can also reduce risk from disease or
weather and facilitate certification, which is being
increasingly demanded by advanced markets.
•
There are also potential benefits for national economies as
contract farming leads to economies of scale, bound to
provide for a more dynamic agricultural sector.
•
become attractive to many farmers because the
arrangement can offer both an assured market and access
to production support.
•
Effective linkages between companies and thousands of
farmers often require the involvement of formal farmer
associations or cooperatives or, at least, informal farmer
groups.
HILL FARMING
•
It is an extensive farming in upland areas,
primarily rearing sheep and goat, however
poultry, cattle, yak and Mithun are often reared
extensively in upland areas of north east India.
•
Fell farming
is the farming of fells, a fell being an
area of uncultivated high ground used as
common grazing. It is a term commonly used
in Northern England, especially in the Lake
District and the Pennine hills.
•
Elsewhere, the terms
hill farming
or pastoral
farming are more commonly used.
•
Cattle farming in the hills is usually restricted by a scarcity of winter fodder, and
hill sheep, grazing at about two hectares per head, are often taken
to lowland areas for fattening.
•
Modern hill farming is often heavily dependent on state subsidy, for example in
the United Kingdom it receives support from the European Union's Common
Agricultural Policy. Improved, sown pasture and drained moorland can be
stocked more heavily, at approximately one sheep per 0.25 hectares.
•
Sheep farms and mixed sheep and cattle farms constitute approximately 1/4
th
of the agricultural land in India. These areas have a harsh climate, short growing
seasons, relatively poor quality of soil and long winters. Therefore, these areas
are considered to be disadvantaged and the animals raised there are generally
less productive and farmers will often send them down to the lowlands to be
fattened up. Upland areas are not traditionally favorable for agricultural
practices.
•
The majority of Hill farming land in England is classified as Less Favoured Area
(LFA), and the LFA constitutes 17% of land farmed in England.The LFA is further
divided into Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDAs) and Disadvantaged Areas
(DAs), which make up 67% and 33% of the LFA respectively.
These areas are
classified as such on account of poor climate, soils, and terrain which cause
higher costs in production and transportation as well as lower yields and less
productivity. The LFA is significant in England's farming on a whole despite
Vertical & horizontal integration in commercial
poultry production
•
The chicken industry has grown to the magnitude that it is today by
combining production stages into large vertically and horizontally
integrated firms able to take advantage of rapidly changing
technology.
•
Horizontal integration refers to the expansion strategy adopted by
the corporations which involves acquisition of one company by
another company in which both the companies are in the same
business line, similar in operations and at same value chain supply
level in terms of product and production to subside competition.
•
Whereas in Vertical Integration the two firms are merged and
operate at different stages of the supply chain.
•
Horizontal Integration brings synergy, but not self-sufficiency to
operate independently in the value chain, while Vertical Integration
helps the company to gain synergy with self-sufficiency.
Vertical & horizontal integration
•
Upland areas are usually covered with both dry and wet dwarf
shrub heath and, rough and either managed or unmanaged
improved grasslands. During winter farmers will usually keep the
animals indoors, supplementing the livestock's diet with hay or
silage.
•
The land used to grow winter feed that are not mowed are able to
provide protection for a variety of birds
including skylarks, partridge, and corncrakes who build on their
nests on the ground. Agricultural use, burning, and grazing by both
livestock and wild life such as deer, helps to sustain
the upland grasslands, moorland and bogs.
•
If these ecosystems were not maintained they would be colonized
by trees and scrub.
•
Sustainable careful maintenance is highly important in hill farming
in order to protect the delicate relationship that farm manage has
on the biodiversity of native plant and animal species.
•
Upland ecosystems have seen a shift in the last century, associated
with widespread habitat deterioration caused by human actions
and exploitation
•
Horizontal Integration helps to acquire control over the
market, but Vertical Integration helps in gaining control over
the whole industry. Vertically integrated companies in a
supply chain are united through a common owner.
•
Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different
products or services and the products combine to satisfy a
common need – in this case, the production of broiler
chicken. There are mainly two forms of Vertical Integration
namely,
Forward Integration
and
Backward Integration
.
•
Vertical integration in the chicken industry means:
•
Less man hours to produce more chickens, due to improved
technology and larger flock sizes;
•
A reduction in the amount of feed required to produce a kg of
broiler meat, due to continual discoveries in genetics and
nutrition.
•
A reduced growing period to produce a market broiler chicken, meaning
reduced space, labour, equipment and a much smaller environmental
impact;
•
Better health programs for the welfare of birds; and
•
Being able to go to the market at any time of the year and buy tender,
flavorful chicken products at a price that is very kind to your budget.
•
Vertical integration allows the industry to maintain strict biosecurity
measures, vaccination programs and testing for bacteria such as
Salmonella at breeder farms and hatcheries. Increasing entry barriers for
new entrants
•
Absorbing both upstream and downstream profits
•
Smoothening the supply chain
•
Fall in the quality of good due to lack of competition
•
Companies to focus less on their core competencies and more on newly
acquired businesses
•
Reduction in flexibility to increase or decrease production levels.
•
Contract farming
involves agricultural and
poultry production being carried out on the basis of an
agreement between the buyers and farm producers.
•
Sometimes it involves the buyer specifying the quality
required and the price, with the farmer agreeing to deliver
at a future date.
•
The farmer undertakes to supply agreed quantities of a
crop or livestock product, based on the quality standards
and delivery requirements of the purchaser.
•
In return, the buyer, usually a company, agrees to buy the
product, often at a price that is established in advance.
•
The company often also agrees to support the farmer
through, e.g., supplying inputs, assisting with land
preparation, providing production advice and transporting
produce to its premises.
Contract farming
Export-Import
•
In world’s market India rank 5-6
th
in egg and 20-21
st
in
chicken meat production. Indian export earning is very
low. The present export potential from poultry product
is however, a meager Rs.10-15 crores. Therefore
require massive export promotion efforts.
•
The major share of broiler export is in favour of USA,
whereas 70% eggs are exported by USA, China and
Holland.
•
China has emerged as a potential exporter country
from Asia along with Thailand (meat).
•
Indian industry has to meet the norms of Hazard
Analysis and Critical Control Point (‘HACCP’) to produce
safe products for human consumption. This because of
insecticidal residue of crops, medicinal residue and the
microbial contamination arising from management
lapses.
•
The industry today ranks fifth in the world with respect to table egg
production and 22
nd
in respect of poultry meat production. As per APEDA
(Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority)
India’s share in the world egg trade is estimated at 1500 tonnes worth $1.74
millions.
•
India is presently exporting, mainly to UAE (62.5%) Oman, Maldives and
Bahrain. Export of poultry meat from India commenced recently. The major
destinations are Oman (30%), Maldives, and Bahrain. Live poultry export
during 1992-93 was 41 lakhs and the major destinations are Bangladesh
(39%) UAE and Oman.
•
Export projection for poultry and its products
(Kindly update)
•
Products
Year 2919-2020
(in Million Rupees)
•
Poultry Egg
…..
•
Poultry Meat
……
•
Live Poultry
………
•
Value added
……..
•
Total
………
•
Industry sources estimate that poultry export can earn heavy foreign
exchange.
MIXED OR INTEGRATED POULTRY FARMING
•
In
mixed farming
a farmer can take up different types of practices for
income generation while doing his main business of agriculture.
•
Mixed farming can be done together with the main agricultural practices
like poultry farming, dairy farming, bee keeping, sericulture, Pisciculture,
shrimp farming, goat and sheep rearing, piggery and agro forestry.
•
Mixed farming also means operating two agricultural systems
independently, but at the same time like growing soya and rearing
buffaloes.
•
They are two independent businesses with one having little to do with the
other and farmer conducts different types of agricultural practices
together, on a single farm in view of increasing his income through
different sources, is called as mixed farming.
•
The greatest benefit from this type of farming is that if any one business
does not pay desired benefit, the same can be recovered from the benefit
of the other business.
•
Mixed farming system consists of components such as crops and livestock
that coexist independently from each other. In this farming integrating
crops and livestock serves primarily to minimize the risk and not to recycle
resources.
•
On the other hand, in
integrated farming
, each agricultural activity is
linked to the other, for inputs.
•
One main point that makes integrated farming popular is that it is a
circular cycle with the waste of one going in to the next.
•
Thus, the by-products of one unit is utilized by others that yield its
maximum output. Eg. Dairying/poultry with fish rearing in a rice and
planktons growing field.
•
Integrated Farming is a whole farm management system, which enables
the farmers to identify opportunities and threats and act accordingly and
at the same time, consider consumer interests in their business.
•
The most valuable poultry production systems for fish production are
those systems which produce nutrient-rich and collectable waste. Layers
produce more calcium and phosphorus-rich excreta than broilers.
•
The direct use of egg laying where the birds are of constant weight and
produce fairly constant levels of waste, are easier to manage than broilers
in which waste availability is cyclical
•
Integrated farming system is an integration of appropriate viable
technologies within the enterprise and / or integration of one or
more enterprises with prevailing ones at a farm according to the
availability of resources and farmer’s choice.
•
It also satisfy the necessities of a household as many as possible for
livelihood security of a family and simultaneously leads to better
utilization of resources, increased productivity per unit area,
efficient recycling of Farm wastes, generate more employment,
reduce the risk and ensure environmental safety and sustainability.
•
Much attention is being given for the development of poultry
farming in India and with improved scientific management
practices; poultry has now become a popular rural enterprise in
different states of the country.
•
Apart from eggs and chicken, poultry also yields manure, which has
high fertilizer value.
•
The production of poultry dropping in India is estimated to be
about 1,300 thousand tons, which is about 390 metric tones of
protein.
•
Utilization of this huge resource as manure in aquaculture will
definitely afford better conversion than agriculture.
•
The application of poultry manuring in the pond provides a nutrient base for dense
bloom of phytoplankton, particularly nano planktons which helps in intense
zooplankton development.
•
The zooplankton has an additional food source in the form of bacteria which thrive
on the organic fraction of the added poultry dung. Thus, indicates the need for
stocking phytoplankto-phagous and zoo plankto-phagous fishes in the pond.
•
In addition to phytoplankton and zooplankton, there is a high production of
detritus at the pond bottom, which provides the substrate for colonization of
micro-organisms and other benthic fauna especially the chironomid larvae.
•
Another addition will be macro-vegetation feeder grass carp, which, in the
absence of macrophytes, can be fed on green cattle fodder grown on the pond
embankments.
•
The semi digested excreta of this fish forms the food of bottom feeders.
•
For exploitation of the above food resources, polyculture of three Indian major
carps and three exotic carps is taken up in fish cum poultry ponds.
•
The pond is stocked after the pond water gets properly detoxified.
•
The stocking rates vary from 8000 - 8500 fingerlings/ha and a species ratio of 40 %
surface feeders, 20 % of column feeders, 30 % bottom feeders and 10-20 % weedy
feeders are preferred for high fish yields.
•
Mixed culture of only Indian major carps can be taken up with a species ratio of 40
% surface, 30 % column and 30 % bottom feeders.
COMPONENTS OF AN IFS MODEL
•
A pond of 1 acre size for fish production.
•
Construction of Fish hatchery.
•
A poultry house of the capacity of 1000.
•
Duck farming of the capacity of 25 Ducks.
•
Cows (Different stages of lactation and reproduction), calves and
heifers.
•
Gobar gas plat
•
Vermi-compost unit of 10 beds.
•
Floriculture
•
Bee-keeping
•
Agricultural component
(seasonal vegetables, creepers and short
fruit trees on the bund of the pond)and cereals crops on the
rest
of the land according to the season.
•
One store room and staff room.
•
Other related component which can be introduced.
Poultry farming practices such as organic farming, nitrogen fixation, biodiversity management, and contract farming are discussed. Organic farming emphasizes holistic relationships in agriculture, promoting sustainable production. Nitrogen fixation and biodiversity management play essential roles in soil health and plant protection. Contract farming offers benefits such as risk reduction and market access. Hill farming in upland areas is primarily for rearing livestock like sheep and goats, with extensive practices in northeast India.
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DIFFERENT METHODS OF POULTRY FARMING By: Dr. Ravikant Nirala Assistant Professor, LPM, BVC, Patna
ORGANIC FARMING Organic farming endorses the concept that the soil, plants, animals and human beings are linked. In philosophical terms organic farming means farming in sprits of organic relationship . In this system everything is connected with everything else. Therefore, its goal is to create an integrated, environmentally sound, safe and economically sustainable agriculture production system. The farmer manages self-regulating ecological and biological processes for sustainable and economic production of products. Organic farming systems are based on development of biological diversity and the maintenance and Replenishment of soil productivity. The soil in this system is a living entity. It conserves soil fertility and soil erosion through implementation of appropriate conservation practices.
Meeting crop need of nitrogen through nitrogen fixation by leguminous crops in the cropping systems and recycling of farm organic materials including crop residues and livestock wastes, Importance of crop rotation, natural predators, resistance varieties and other agronomic manipulations of plant protection including weed management, and Biodiversity management, soil and environmental health. The natural ecosystems neither use any input nor demands unreasonable quantities of water. The art of organic farming is to make the best use of ecological principles and processes. The nutrients go back to the soil when leaves fall or plants die. Part of the biomass is eaten by various animals (including insects), and their excrements return the nutrients to the soil. In the soil, a huge number of soil organisms are involved in the decomposition of organic material which makes nutrients available to the plant roots again. Organic nutrient management is based on biodegradable material, i.e. plant and animal residues which can be decomposed. Nutrient cycles are closed with the help of composting, mulching, green manuring, crop rotation etc.
Processors constitute the main users of contracts, as the guaranteed supply enables them to maximize utilization of their processing capacity. Contracts with farmers can also reduce risk from disease or weather and facilitate certification, increasingly demanded by advanced markets. There are also potential benefits for national economies as contract farming leads to economies of scale, bound to provide for a more dynamic agricultural sector. become attractive to many arrangement can offer both an assured market and access to production support. Effective linkages between companies and thousands of farmers often require the involvement of formal farmer associations or cooperatives or, at least, informal farmer groups. which is being farmers because the
HILL FARMING It is an extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep and goat, however poultry, cattle, yak and Mithun are often reared extensively in upland areas of north east India. Fell farming is the farming of fells, a fell being an area of uncultivated high ground used as common grazing. It is a term commonly used in Northern England, especially in the Lake District and the Pennine hills. Elsewhere, the terms hill farming or pastoral farming are more commonly used.
Cattle farming in the hills is usually restricted by a scarcity of winter fodder, and hill sheep, grazing at about two hectares per head, are often taken to lowland areas for fattening. Modern hill farming is often heavily dependent on state subsidy, for example in the United Kingdom it receives support from the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. Improved, sown pasture and drained moorland can be stocked more heavily, at approximately one sheep per 0.25 hectares. Sheep farms and mixed sheep and cattle farms constitute approximately 1/4th of the agricultural land in India. These areas have a harsh climate, short growing seasons, relatively poor quality of soil and long winters. Therefore, these areas are considered to be disadvantaged and the animals raised there are generally less productive and farmers will often send them down to the lowlands to be fattened up. Upland areas are not traditionally favorable for agricultural practices. The majority of Hill farming land in England is classified as Less Favoured Area (LFA), and the LFA constitutes 17% of land farmed in England.The LFA is further divided into Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDAs) and Disadvantaged Areas (DAs), which make up 67% and 33% of the LFA respectively. These areas are classified as such on account of poor climate, soils, and terrain which cause higher costs in production and transportation as well as lower yields and less productivity. The LFA is significant in England's farming on a whole despite
Vertical & horizontal integration in commercial poultry production The chicken industry has grown to the magnitude that it is today by combining production stages into large vertically and horizontally integrated firms able to take advantage of rapidly changing technology. Horizontal integration refers to the expansion strategy adopted by the corporations which involves acquisition of one company by another company in which both the companies are in the same business line, similar in operations and at same value chain supply level in terms of product and production to subside competition. Whereas in Vertical Integration the two firms are merged and operate at different stages of the supply chain. Horizontal Integration brings synergy, but not self-sufficiency to operate independently in the value chain, while Vertical Integration helps the company to gain synergy with self-sufficiency.
Upland areas are usually covered with both dry and wet dwarf shrub heath and, rough and either managed or unmanaged improved grasslands. During winter farmers will usually keep the animals indoors, supplementing the livestock's diet with hay or silage. The land used to grow winter feed that are not mowed are able to provide protection for including skylarks, partridge, and corncrakes who build on their nests on the ground. Agricultural use, burning, and grazing by both livestock and wild life such the upland grasslands, moorland and bogs. If these ecosystems were not maintained they would be colonized by trees and scrub. Sustainable careful maintenance is highly important in hill farming in order to protect the delicate relationship that farm manage has on the biodiversity of native plant and animal species. Upland ecosystems have seen a shift in the last century, associated with widespread habitat deterioration caused by human actions and exploitation a variety of birds as deer, helps to sustain
Horizontal Integration helps to acquire control over the market, but Vertical Integration helps in gaining control over the whole industry. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different products or services and the products combine to satisfy a common need in this case, the production of broiler chicken. There are mainly two forms of Vertical Integration namely, Forward Integration and Backward Integration. Vertical integration in the chicken industry means: Less man hours to produce more chickens, due to improved technology and larger flock sizes; A reduction in the amount of feed required to produce a kg of broiler meat, due to continual discoveries in genetics and nutrition.
A reduced growing period to produce a market broiler chicken, meaning reduced space, labour, equipment and a much smaller environmental impact; Better health programs for the welfare of birds; and Being able to go to the market at any time of the year and buy tender, flavorful chicken products at a price that is very kind to your budget. Vertical integration allows the industry to maintain strict biosecurity measures, vaccination programs and testing for bacteria such as Salmonella at breeder farms and hatcheries. Increasing entry barriers for new entrants Absorbing both upstream and downstream profits Smoothening the supply chain Fall in the quality of good due to lack of competition Companies to focus less on their core competencies and more on newly acquired businesses Reduction in flexibility to increase or decrease production levels.
Contract farming Contract poultry production being carried out on the basis of an agreement between the buyers and farm producers. Sometimes it involves the buyer specifying the quality required and the price, with the farmer agreeing to deliver at a future date. The farmer undertakes to supply agreed quantities of a crop or livestock product, based on the quality standards and delivery requirements of the purchaser. In return, the buyer, usually a company, agrees to buy the product, often at a price that is established in advance. The company often also agrees to support the farmer through, e.g., supplying inputs, preparation, providing production advice and transporting produce to its premises. farming involves agricultural and assisting with land
Export-Import In world s market India rank 5-6thin egg and 20-21stin chicken meat production. Indian export earning is very low. The present export potential from poultry product is however, a meager Rs.10-15 crores. Therefore require massive export promotion efforts. The major share of broiler export is in favour of USA, whereas 70% eggs are exported by USA, China and Holland. China has emerged as a potential exporter country from Asia along with Thailand (meat). Indian industry has to meet the norms of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point ( HACCP ) to produce safe products for human consumption. This because of insecticidal residue of crops, medicinal residue and the microbial contamination arising from management lapses.
The industry today ranks fifth in the world with respect to table egg production and 22ndin respect of poultry meat production. As per APEDA (Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority) India s share in the world egg trade is estimated at 1500 tonnes worth $1.74 millions. India is presently exporting, mainly to UAE (62.5%) Oman, Maldives and Bahrain. Export of poultry meat from India commenced recently. The major destinations are Oman (30%), Maldives, and Bahrain. Live poultry export during 1992-93 was 41 lakhs and the major destinations are Bangladesh (39%) UAE and Oman. Export projection for poultry and its products (Kindly update) Products Year 2919-2020 (in Million Rupees) .. .. Poultry Egg Poultry Meat Live Poultry Value added Total Industry sources estimate that poultry export can earn heavy foreign exchange.
MIXED OR INTEGRATED POULTRY FARMING In mixed farming a farmer can take up different types of practices for income generation while doing his main business of agriculture. Mixed farming can be done together with the main agricultural practices like poultry farming, dairy farming, bee keeping, sericulture, Pisciculture, shrimp farming, goat and sheep rearing, piggery and agro forestry. Mixed farming also means operating independently, but at the same time like growing soya and rearing buffaloes. They are two independent businesses with one having little to do with the other and farmer conducts different types of agricultural practices together, on a single farm in view of increasing his income through different sources, is called as mixed farming. The greatest benefit from this type of farming is that if any one business does not pay desired benefit, the same can be recovered from the benefit of the other business. Mixed farming system consists of components such as crops and livestock that coexist independently from each other. In this farming integrating crops and livestock serves primarily to minimize the risk and not to recycle resources. two agricultural systems
On the other hand, in integrated farming, each agricultural activity is linked to the other, for inputs. One main point that makes integrated farming popular is that it is a circular cycle with the waste of one going in to the next. Thus, the by-products of one unit is utilized by others that yield its maximum output. Eg. Dairying/poultry with fish rearing in a rice and planktons growing field. Integrated Farming is a whole farm management system, which enables the farmers to identify opportunities and threats and act accordingly and at the same time, consider consumer interests in their business. The most valuable poultry production systems for fish production are those systems which produce nutrient-rich and collectable waste. Layers produce more calcium and phosphorus-rich excreta than broilers. The direct use of egg laying where the birds are of constant weight and produce fairly constant levels of waste, are easier to manage than broilers in which waste availability is cyclical
Integrated farming system is an integration of appropriate viable technologies within the enterprise and / or integration of one or more enterprises with prevailing ones at a farm according to the availability of resources and farmer s choice. It also satisfy the necessities of a household as many as possible for livelihood security of a family and simultaneously leads to better utilization of resources, increased productivity per unit area, efficient recycling of Farm wastes, generate more employment, reduce the risk and ensure environmental safety and sustainability. Much attention is being given for the development of poultry farming in India and with improved scientific management practices; poultry has now become a popular rural enterprise in different states of the country. Apart from eggs and chicken, poultry also yields manure, which has high fertilizer value. The production of poultry dropping in India is estimated to be about 1,300 thousand tons, which is about 390 metric tones of protein. Utilization of this huge resource as manure in aquaculture will definitely afford better conversion than agriculture.
The application of poultry manuring in the pond provides a nutrient base for dense bloom of phytoplankton, particularly nano planktons which helps in intense zooplankton development. The zooplankton has an additional food source in the form of bacteria which thrive on the organic fraction of the added poultry dung. Thus, indicates the need for stocking phytoplankto-phagous and zoo plankto-phagous fishes in the pond. In addition to phytoplankton and zooplankton, there is a high production of detritus at the pond bottom, which provides the substrate for colonization of micro-organisms and other benthic fauna especially the chironomid larvae. Another addition will be macro-vegetation feeder grass carp, which, in the absence of macrophytes, can be fed on green cattle fodder grown on the pond embankments. The semi digested excreta of this fish forms the food of bottom feeders. For exploitation of the above food resources, polyculture of three Indian major carps and three exotic carps is taken up in fish cum poultry ponds. The pond is stocked after the pond water gets properly detoxified. The stocking rates vary from 8000 - 8500 fingerlings/ha and a species ratio of 40 % surface feeders, 20 % of column feeders, 30 % bottom feeders and 10-20 % weedy feeders are preferred for high fish yields. Mixed culture of only Indian major carps can be taken up with a species ratio of 40 % surface, 30 % column and 30 % bottom feeders.
COMPONENTS OF AN IFS MODEL A pond of 1 acre size for fish production. Construction of Fish hatchery. A poultry house of the capacity of 1000. Duck farming of the capacity of 25 Ducks. Cows (Different stages of lactation and reproduction), calves and heifers. Gobar gas plat Vermi-compost unit of 10 beds. Floriculture Bee-keeping Agricultural component (seasonal vegetables, creepers and short fruit trees on the bund of the pond)and cereals crops on the rest of the land according to the season. One store room and staff room. Other related component which can be introduced.
