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Scope of Mixed-farming on the Nilgiris

Volume : 48
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 97 - 101
Published: November 03, 2023
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Abstract


Mixed farming as a means of providing social and economic security to small farmers is now well realised. By adopting a diversified system of farming, the farmer can increase his income, provide work for all the members of the household all through the year and utilise the farm by-products profitably. Mixed or diversified farming is the inclusion of several kinds of livestock, bee-keeping and poultry farming on the one hand and the cultivation of several kinds of crops on the other in the farming practice. In regard to the latter, it would be good for the farmer to plant both permanent and annual crops. Permanent crops should include fruit trees as well as economic trees providing saleable products such as fodder, firewood, fencing material, etc.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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