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Multi-layer Farming

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Introduction: In agriculture, multi-layer farming is the practice of growing two or more plants of different heights in the same piece of land at the same time instead of just one crop. Multi-layer farming helps smallholder farmers to grow various seasonal vegetables and horticultural crops throughout the year while ensuring food and nutritional security for the household. This farming provide with an additional income from the sale of surplus produce. Multi-layer farming is also called as multi-tire farming and multistoried cropping. Multi layer cropping allows the farmers to get a good result of harvest and more earning on the same piece of land by using available sources such as fertilizers, seeds water etc.  Principles of Multi-layer Farming: Multilayer Farming is also integrated farming which is based on the principle of-High Density Planting-Making the utilization of  manure, water, land to obtain maximum productivity per unit area. Multilayer Farming use maximum available resour
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Aquaponics

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Aquaponics Meaning:                          Aquaponics is a agricultural system which combines raising aquatic animals i.e., snails, fish, crayfish or prawns. With a less soil media plants are growing in water. which is also known as combines cultivation agriculture with hydroponics in symbolic environment.  Typical Component included in Aquaponics: 1. Rearing Tank: These tanks are used for fish to feed and raise. 2. Settling basin: Used to catch uneaten food and detached biofilms. 3. Biofilter: Where ammonia into nitrates can grow and convert with the help of nitrification bacteria. 4. Hydroponics subsystem:  Where plants are grown by absorbing excess nutrients from the water. 5. Sump:  It is a lowest point in which it is pumped back to the rearing tanks with the help of flowing water. Live Components: 1. Plants:                         The basic component of aquaponics system is plants. here plants grow on the top water, where more than one fish live. However it mean that the  pl
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Subsistence Farming and Commercial Farming

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Subsistence Farming Farming is done to satisfy the basic needs of the farmer and his family without any profit from the farming. Features  Most of crop production is consumed by the farmers and families. Subsistence farming is done in small land and use of primitive tools. In this farming farmer will not use fertilizer and high yielding variety of seeds as they are poor. There is no require of human labour In this type of farming we need ordinary tools of agriculture. Advantages Subsistence farming is Cheapest farming, it not require huge investment. In subsistence farming hiring labour is not required.  It provide food for the family Disadvantages Subsistence farming is fully depend on the rain to do well.  It is limited production of the crops In subsistence farming there is no financial profit. This framing is not attractive for the investors to invest in the farming.  Commercial Farming Commercial farming is all about the growing of crops and/or the rearing of domestic animals for
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About Intensive Farming and Extensive Farming.

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  Intensive Farming:         Intensive farming is also known as Intensive agriculture. It is a type of agriculture technique of cultivation practicing with lot of labour and capital which is used to increase the  agricultural produce or yields. By using heavy pesticides and chemical fertilizers.           For application of fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, herbicides to grow crops we need large number of labours and capital. the most important we need is capital for maintenance of high efficiency machinery for cultivating, harvesting, irrigation equipment where required as well planting. Techniques and Technologies: Live Stock      a . Pasture: Improvement in the soil and grass to increase in the per unit inputs in agricultural production of live stock system.     b. Rotational grazing:  I t is the practice to feed on growing herbage live stock between land covered with grass. to increase the quality and quantity of forage growth.      c. Concentrated animal feeding operatio
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Things to know about Agriculture.

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Introduction of Agriculture Agriculture is also known as "farming". It is the backbone of human civilization. The word agriculture derived from Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultura, from ager, "field", and cultura, "cultivation" or "growing". Agriculture is the art and science or practice of farming of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising domesticated animals.  The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, medicine and raw materials. Food classes include grains, vegetables, fruits, oils, meat, milk, fungi and eggs. Over one-third of the world's workers are employed in agriculture sector. Indian Agriculture. Indian agriculture started on 9000 BCE as a result of early cultivation of plants, and domestication of  animals. In India there two monsoons that leads to two harvests in one year. Indian products soon reached the world via existing trading networks and foreign crops introduced in India. I
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Agriculture life

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF AGRICULTURE LIFE Keep visiting this profile to get more information about Farming.
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