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#Farming_types
Specialised Farming
A farm on which the income from a single product or one enterprise is more than or equal to 50% (>50%) of the total farm income is called specialised farm and such farming is known as specialised farming
Diversified Fanning
A farm on which the income from a single product is less than or not equal to 50%(< 50%)of the total farm income is called a diversified or general , farm and such farming is known as diversified farming.
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Subsistence farming or marginal farming is a diversified farming.
Dry Farming
Dry farming is the profitable production of the useful crops without irrigation on the land which receives less than or equal to 50 cm (i.e. 20 inches) annnual rainfall.The main problem of such farming area is to conserve soil moisture. Natural factors force the farmer to adopt dry farming.Therefore there is no question for comparative profit or loss.The people of such region are struggling their life for livelihood.
Mixed Farming
In such type of farming crop production is combined with livestock raising or dairying.In our country livestocks are
inter-related to agriculture due to partial farm mechanisation. The livestock enterprise is complimentary to crop production so as to provide a balanced productive systems of farming. When the livestock begins to compete with the crop for the same resource,the relationship changed from complimentary to competitive nature.The income from the subsidiary enterprise does
not exceed 10% and the subsidiary enterprises utilises byeproducts.
Mixed farming is a type of diversified farming where livestocks and crop production are inter-deperident on each other.
Ranching Fanning
Ranch land is such land where agricultural practices are not adopted i.e. land is not utilised for raising crops but the natural vegetations used for grazing the livestock.Who kept such livestock is called Rancher and the farming is called Ranching.
Ranchers have their no land and make use of such public land. Ranch land is present in Australia, America, Tibet, China and hilly tracts of India (i.e. area of Bikaner and Jammu & Kashmir). Australian sheep ranching farm is well known in
the world.
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