Role of livestock for organic farming and sustainable agriculture

Livestock integration plays a major role in the life of farmers of our country, it provides food, income, employment and many other contributions to the farming community. Integrated crop-livestock system is advocated to be very promising in boosting food productivity and soil fertility owing to its numerous synergistic benefits. Integrated crop-livestock farming system (IFS) offers scope to promote organic farming, and carry over of carbon and nutrients from one cropping season to the next. Organic Farming also known as ecological farming or biological farming, is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers / manures of organic origin such as Village compost, Farm yard manure, green manure, oil cakes , Kitchen waste manures, bone meal, fish meal etc. and emphasizes on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.