Integrated farming

Integrated farming

Integrated farming (or integrated agriculture) refers to agricultural systems that integrate livestock and crop production. Examples include:
* "pig tractor" systems where the animals are confined in crop fields well prior to planting and "plow" the field by digging for roots
* poultry used in orchards or vineyards after harvest to clear rotten fruit and weeds while fertilizing the soil
* cattle or other livestock allowed to graze cover crops between crops on farms that contain both cropland and pasture (or where transhumance is employed)

More recently, however, it has been used to denote a system of agricultural techniques developed in France in 1993 by FARRE (Forum de l'Agriculture Raisonnée Respecteuse l'Environnement). It is an attempt to reconcile agricultural methods with the principles of sustainable development, by balancing, in the words of FARRE, "food production, profitability, safety, animal welfare, social responsibility and environmental care."

See also

* Green technology
* Renewable energy development
* Restorative Development Initiative
* Sustainable agriculture

External links

* [http://www.farre.org/ FARRE homepage]
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5686E/x5686e07.htm Integrated farming of fish, crop and livestock]
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/AC264E/AC264E13.htm Design an construction of an intergated fish farm]
* [http://www.scizerinm.org/chanarticle.html Integrated Farming System by George Chan]
* [http://integratedfarming.netcipia.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome wiki on integrated farming]
* [http://www.songhai.org Songhai Centre in Benin]


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