College of Agriculture, Pune-411005, Maharashtra
*Corresponding author: jyotibakumbhar@gmail.com
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
Integrated farming systems play important role in increasing productivity and sustainability of agriculture. A field experiment was conducted on cultivator’s field during Kharif and Rabi season of 2017-18 on medium black soil in scarcity zone of Satara district in Western Maharashtra. The diversification is carried on farmer’s field by replacing existing cultivar by university released varieties and technologies. In Phaltan and Khandala blocks of Satara district four types of farming systems viz., Crop + Dairy + Goatery + Poultry, Crop + Dairy + Goatery, Crop + Dairy + Poultry and Crop +Dairy were identified. The major cropping systems were Green gram -Chickpea. The crop+dairy+goater+ poultry yielded the highest returns with a benefit-cost ratio of 2.14.
