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Integration of farm components - the beauty of coconut homesteads

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Title Integration of farm components - the beauty of coconut homesteads
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Creator P. Anithakumari
JithinShaju
 
Subject Fish farm school
Black soldier flies (BSF)
Bio floc
 
Description The homesteads are models and innovations evolved through generations offering resilience and hope for solving several present day farming woes in general. It offers customization, rural and urban choices of combinations, spatial and temporal dimensions and as ecological units of environmental salvation. The science, philosophy and spirituality of homesteads providing and sharing spaces and basic needs of the farm family, society and the nature also is of utmost importance and of high level of responsible satisfaction.
Coconut based homesteads are farmer-based agroforestry systems for meeting local food and livelihood needs in an ecological system approach. ICRAF (1993) defined agroforestry systems wherein perennial trees/palms/crops are cultivated or grown based on spatial or temporal arrangements where ecological and economical interaction benefits the production and carbon storage. Majority of coconut farmers have small and marginal land holdings,being cultivated in contiguous manner.Small holders farming are very much heterogeneous in terms of resources like land, soil fertility, cropping systems, mixed farming, off farm income, social personal traits and such multiple dimensions.
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Date 2024-04-05T13:51:43Z
2024-04-05T13:51:43Z
2022-08-01
 
Type Article
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/81851
 
Language English
 
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Publisher COCONUT DEVELOPMENT BOARD