Mixed Farming or Cultivation System

Mixed Farming Picture

In the ancient period people lived in jungle. They lived on hunting animal and collecting fruits. Then they were totally uncivilized. With the passes of time civilization grown up among them. They started to live together and then they felt the need of more food. Thus they started food and crop cultivation. At that time there were plenty of cultivable land but the number of population was too low. So, they have no tension of growing more food. But at present time the number of population has been increased in a huge amount where as the amount of land is the same as before. To meet up this expanding food demand the people have innovated the mixed farming system. In this type of farming farmers cultivates at least two or more than two products in a same land in the same time period. This combination of mixed farming varies from person to person and place to place. In recent time the main components of mixed farming are paddy, fish, shrimp, chicken, duck, goat, flower, bee and etc. The combination may be as follows: 

Commonly Used Diagram of a Mixed Farm

1. Paddy and fish mixed farming
2. Paddy and duck mixed farming
3. Paddy and shrimp mixed farming
4. Paddy and goat mixed farming
5. Fish and shrimp mixed farming
6. Fish and chicken mixed farming
7. Fish and duck mixed farming
8. Chicken and shrimp mixed farming
9. Paddy, fish and chicken mixed farming
10. Paddy, fish and duck mixed farming
11. Paddy, shrimp and chicken mixed farming
12. Flower and bee mixed farming

These are the most commonly used forms of mixed farming. Besides, the cultivation of various types of crops or corns are also considered as mixed. The details of the categories of mixed farming will be discussed bellow.