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Integrated farming system diversified components such as agriculture, animal husbandry sheep and poultry rearing have been proved to be economically viable, technically feasible environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable. There is a need to study the sustainable of the combination of different farming system under different agro climatic situation in the long run including value crops modeling to identify farming system options to suit a given agro-climatic and socio economics situation a better planning and utilization of the available resource with bright scenario for the farm community as well whole. Due to increasing population and declining in per capita availability of land and horizontal expansion of land for 7 F’s-food, fodder, fuel, fiber, fruit flower and fish invention and vertical expansion by integration of different farming systems. Further, unique method of refining farmers to develop individual farm plan, to obtain continuous, maximum net returns (Sustainable income),with minimize the risk, efficient use of available resources, constant decision making method, labour intensive, technically feasible, environmentally sound, economically viable and socially acceptable, immediate goal increase net income and ultimate goal family welfare, sustaining ecosystem for future generation

The present study was conducted to examine the effects of institutional credit on the cost, returns and profitability of farming in the Tumkur district of Karnataka State. Out of the sample of 120 respondents selected for study, sixty were borrowers of institutional credit during 2008-09 and the remaining sixty were the non-borrowers selected from the same area. Independent sample t-test was used to compare the production and income of beneficiaries with those of non-beneficiaries. The borrowing pattern showed that the per-farm amount of loan increased with increase in the size of holding. The analysis revealed that the income of beneficiary farm category was higher than that of non-beneficiaries. The per-acre production of beneficiaries with credit for paddy, ragi, groundnut, pigeonpea, arecanut and coconut was more compared to the non-beneficiaries and there was a significant difference in yields except coconut yield. The cost and return structure of major crops, viz, paddy and ragi revealed that the total cost of cultivation was to Rs.12045.11 and 11715.84 per acre respectively on borrower farms compared to Rs. 9991.4 and 10056.44 per acre on non-borrowers farms. The net returns derived from paddy and groundnut were Rs. 16,124.33 and Rs. 14,809.88 (on borrower farms) and Rs.11,132.22 and Rs. 8,771.34 (on non-borrower farms), respectively. The results have clearly demonstrated that agricultural credit has positive impact on the per acre yield of crops under study and also on farmers’ income. Thus the flow of institutional credit has resulted in improving the economy of the borrower farmers.