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12. What is “farming system”? How to improve the farming system?

Concept of farming system

Interaction among households, their Classify farming systems in developing
resources, and resource flows to create a regions based on the following criteria: natural
farming system. A farming system is defined resources are available, and agricultural
as a set of farms with similar resources, activities are the principal livelihood. Based
business models, livelihoods and constraints, on these standards, there are eight significant
requiring identical development strategies groups of farming systems: irrigation farming
and interventions (Dixon, 2001). The operation system; wet rice farming system; heavy
of any individual farming system is strongly rainfall in wet areas farming system; heavy
influenced by the external environment, rain in the sloping highlands farming system;
including policies and units and the links the farming system with a lot of rain in dry and
between information and markets. The cold areas; integrated farming system (both
farming system is part of the agricultural small and large farms); the offset aquaculture
system, which is coordinated in the dynamic (a hybrid system); and urban farming system.
organization of the household’s activities. The above standards and large groups of
Natural resources, socio-economic and farming systems have been applied in six
biological factors are utilized to suit farmers’ major regions of developing countries.
objectives, profits and preferences, including
crop cultivation, livestock and aquaculture
activities. The farming system can be divided
into sub-systems such as crop sub-system, 6 Ve, N.B.,& Thu. N.T.X. (2005). Curricula on the Farming sys-
livestock sub-system, fishery sub-system, etc . tem. Can Tho University
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