Integrated farming if it should be advocated for, must have sustainability goals with provisions for environmental management.

Yea... integrated farming can be an important idea in term of sustainable development coupled with farming

Yes it should be integrated rather than mono type of cropping.

Sustainable farming need not necessarily be organic farming. Integrated farming including concepts of environmental safety, optimual resource utilization, epleshment mechanism, maintaining long term profitability can be called sustainable agriculture. This can be organic / conventional or judicious mix of the two.

All good answers thus far. However, are you meaning sustainable from a food supply standpoint or from an environmental standpoint ?

Properly conducted organic farming including integration and sustainable practices can certainly feed the world.

However a lot of adjustments, firstly in thinking, need to happen for this to be reality. Therefore it appears today as not necessarily sustainable. Changing our thinking and acting accordingly must happen first.

He vivido toda mi vida en el campo, en zona rural de Boyacá, Colombia, desde donde vivo, las personas dia a dia estan cambiando su forma de obtener sus alimentos, las llamadas "huertas caseras" son cada dia mas comunes, cultivando alimentos sin la necesidad de usar herbicidas, se cambia el paradigma de la revolucion verde de la megaproduccion, cambiandolo por la idea de la agricultura familiar, si se potencia el desarrollo sostenible se avanza mas en pro del cuidado del medio ambiente asegurando no solo la produccion alimentaria sino que asi mismo contribuye a la conservacion de recursos energeticos naturales como bosques y rios.

Yes... In many parts its happening..

Organic farming is helpful in restoring the ecological balance and soil health. The chemical fertilizers and insecticide can be reduced and cost of cultivation reduced. Sustainable agricultural development is possible only when the farmer shifts towards integrated farming approaches. The future of farming has to look different from farming today. We will risk losing even more biodiversity, continue with polluting water bodies, driving erosion and running down soil fertility. The focus here is on organic farming, and particularly its relationship with the concept of sustainability. To encourage and enhance biological cycles within the farming system, involving micro-organisms, soil flora and fauna, plants and animals.

Yes, in my opinion this formula is correct: Organic farming + Sustainable development = Sustainable organic farming

I also drew attention to this important topic: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Organic_farming_Sustainable_development_Sustainable_organic_farming

In many key issues, the essence of organic farming is sustainability realized with traditional organic techniques without the use of chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers. On the other hand, there are significant differences between the concepts of sustainable agriculture and organic farming. These concepts do not mean the same thing. Organic farming is one of the important building blocks of sustainable agriculture, but it is only one aspect of sustainable farming. For agriculture to develop and be conducted in accordance with the formula and principles of sustainable development, to become sustainable agriculture, one of the important factors that should be applied is organic farming. The basis of sustainable agriculture is organic farming, as well as the implementation of the principles of sustainable development to auxiliary and agricultural services, i.e. in the field of the use of renewable energy sources, waste sorting, recycling, wastewater treatment and the use of other pro-ecological solutions and technologies enabling the consumption of specific raw materials in a circular economy . However, given the issue of productivity, agricultural productivity per hectare, production costs for organic farming alone, it can be difficult to feed a rapidly growing population. The solution may be to redesign food production and change people's eating habits, because 3/4 of the area of ​​arable land is used only for the production of agricultural crops, which are food for farm animals, i.e. for meat production. In addition, as part of ecological agriculture, it should be allowed to replace chemical plant protection agents with organic fertilizers and to create more resistant to viral, bacterial and fungal varieties of crops with the use of wisely applied genetic modification technology. Another issue is the development of energy based on renewable energy sources, producing electricity and heat for the needs of agricultural production. It is necessary to develop ecological innovations, including the improvement of the process of automation of waste segregation and, for example, the production of small home power plants based on renewable energy sources. The developed ecological innovations should also improve water management, including the development of small, home sewage treatment plants and modern composters. It is also necessary to continue the process of automation, digitization and robotization of production processes used on farms. Such types of issues, which are important elements of the green economy and circular economy concepts, can and should be implemented in sustainable agriculture. An alternative to the industrial production of agricultural products, in which large amounts of pesticides polluting the natural environment are used, has been developed for many years, however, in limited ecological scalrolization, i.e. agriculture without the use of chemical plant protection products. Pesticides should be replaced by the introduction to the production of agricultural products more resistant to viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic diseases of crop varieties that are created using modern biogenetic techniques. In addition, organic farming is one of the elements of implementing the principles of sustainable, green development carried out in accordance with the principles of the circular economy and / or green economy concept. Sustainable, eco-friendly economic development is being developed to prevent adverse climate change, including the global warming process, which is progressing faster and faster, which also has an adverse effect on agriculture through more frequent droughts. Sustainable agriculture is one of the key elements of the sustainable pro-ecological development in the economy conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Sustainable agriculture should not emit any negative effects on the environment, i.e. above all it cannot generate environmental pollution and it cannot emit greenhouse gases. In this way, sustainable pro-ecological agriculture is developed, which is not a source of the global warming process. One of the good solutions to combine the concept of sustainable development with pro-ecological agriculture is organic production of agricultural produce, i.e. without the use of chemical plant protection products and chemically produced fertilizers. Properly conducted production of organic agricultural products is a good solution for the development of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture. Farms that operate according to the principles of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture can also develop sustainable pro-ecological agro-tourism. It is a perfect combination of ecological goals. This type of farm should have its own power plants for the production of electricity and heat from renewable energy sources. Waste should be subject to full segregation and recycling of organic waste used as compost for the production of natural, organic fertilizers should be used. On a farm operating in accordance with the principles of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture, the principles of protection of pollinating insects should be observed and apiaries with bees should be kept. A farm operating a sewage treatment plant should operate on a farm operating in accordance with the principles of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture, especially if farm animals are also raised on this farm. Agricultural holdings operating in accordance with the principles of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture should be able to produce on the principles of in-house and handicraft production of organic agricultural products, etc. and sell them on the local market, for tourists visiting an agritourism farm or in special stores, in production and service cooperatives, with reduced rates tax. Under the agricultural and pro-ecological policy, the state should support the development of farms operating in accordance with the principles of sustainable pro-ecological agriculture. Another important issue regarding the issue of organic farming development concerns the protection of insects pollinating flowers. The pollination value of crop flowers (without crops) is estimated at $ 500 billion. USA annually. Due to the intensification of agricultural produce production, including the use of chemical plant protection products, the number of pollinating insects, including bees in particular, is rapidly decreasing. The number of bumblebees also decreases very quickly, and only these insects pollinate some crops. To limit the sources of this problem, man should limit the development of agriculture based on the industrial production of arable crops, in particular in the areas of arable crops intended for livestock feed, which is globally 3/4 of the arable land area. According to the observations of biologists, environmentalists, insects die so quickly that in 100 years there will be no insects. If pollinating insects become extinct then the plants will stop producing fruit and seeds, many species of plants will become extinct and there will be a serious problem with feeding humanity and many species of animals on Earth. Therefore, the problem is very serious. In my opinion, this is the second most important problem to be solved in the 21st century, in addition to the problem of the gradually and faster global warming process. In my opinion, these are the most important global problems and challenges to solve numerous problems for humanity in the 21st century. The concept of sustainable (man-made) development in almost every field, including agriculture, contains paradoxical issues in its essence. only in natural ecosystems that for millions of years are adapting in slow processes to changing environmental conditions and the natural, ecological, climatic, geological environment etc. do not contain this paradox. However, in connection with the progressing global warming process, the increasing negative effects of climate change (e.g. drought in arable fields, forest fires, pest infestation, etc.), man should change economic processes by implementing the principles of sustainable, pro-ecological development implemented in accordance with the concept of green economy and / or circular economy. This also applies to agriculture, under which organic farming should be developed using energy from renewable energy sources, using modern technologies for obtaining and storing rainwater, building and using a sewage treatment plant located at a farm, etc. Farms implementing organic farming should, in addition to organic farming crops have their own apiary with bees. Agricultural crops should be conducted so that pollinating insects are protected. Farms implementing organic farming and operating as part of sustainable development can also develop ecological agrotourism.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

My question is: What is integrated farming?

Are we integrating livestock production with crop production?

Are we integrating different types of crops (eg., field crops, vegetable and food crops, forage crops) in the same system?

I think that integrated farming encompasses more than organic farming vs. conventional farming. and as some of the answers alluded to above, what is sustainability?

in my opinion integrated agriculture encompasses several points of which organic farming is part with the aim of preserving the environment and developing different methods in order to increase yields and improve varieties

Very true organic farming is not sustainable but integrated farming is

Very well said Hem C. Joshi .

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Sustainable agriculture indeed shares many of the ambitions of organic farming. However, maintaining yield and in many countries such as in sub Sahara Africa intensifying agriculture is today very difficult to acchieve without chemical fertilizer and pesticites. Conservation agriculture is a good exemple of what can be acchieved. Initialy it requires chemical imputs but with time improvements un soil health and fertility can lead to a drastic reduction in chemical fertiliser use and better crop pest resistance. However this take time - many years.

Very well said Hem C. Joshi .

Ok, la agricultura integrada, pero de manera inteligente, hay que ver que se puede integrar, por ejemplo en el caso de los nutrientes disponibles en el suelo para satisfacer las necesidades de los cultivos, en muchos casos el empleo de materia orgánica no satisface las necesidades de un cultivo determinado, entonces se puede analizar cuales son los elementos disponibles en el suelo y los que se encuentran en la materia orgánica para determinar que elemento nutritivo es el que falta y enrriquecer la materia orgánica con un fertilizante simple en la dosis que realmente se necesita. Pero en el caso del control de plagas no es lo mismo, porque si utiliza un bioplaguicida que es un organismo vivo no puedes combinar con un plaguicida. Otro inconveniente pienso que sea que los productos que vas a obtener no son netamente ecológicos y por tanto no lo puedes comercializar como tal

Yes.

Yes ...organic farming is the need of hour