To provide value-addition in farming activities and arrest the falling farm incomes in the district, the Department of Agriculture is set to introduce ‘Integrated Farming System' practices on a commercial basis in the entire 13 blocks.
The integrated system is the concept of judicious mixing of poultry, mushroom cultivation, fisheries, agro-forestry, goat/cow rearing and sericulture along with the main agricultural crop cultivation on a unit area which could help bring prosperity to farming.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/integrated-farming-system-be-introduced-tirupur
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/r-vimal-kumar-0
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-chennai
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiruppur
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mushroom
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fisheries
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agroforestry
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/crops
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/irrigation
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/migration
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu