FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -“ Farming System is defined as a complex inter related matrix of soil, plants, animals, implements, power, labour capital and other inputs controlled in part by farming families and influenced to varying degrees by political, economic, institutional and social forces that operate at many levels.

Detailed explanation-2: -Types of farming in India: i) Subsistence farming. ii) Commercial farming. iii) Shifting agriculture. iv) Intensive farming.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three-field system is a regime of crop rotation in which a field is planted with one set of crops one year, a different set in the second year, and left fallow in the third year. A set of crops is rotated from one field to another.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are three main farming systems for crop production: irrigated, semi-mechanized and traditional. Other farming systems are: livestock, fishery and forestry.