A farming system is defined as a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases, enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and interventions would be appropriate.

Organic farming (OF) is a farming system based approach involving use of all potential, good agricultural practices or GAP, including recycling of locally available natural resources, integration of crops and animals into the local farming system. Thus it not only promotes poly cropping on a given piece of land it also connects plants (annual and p

The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals (Livestock) to provide food, wool, and other products where as irrigation is part of agriculture which is nothing buy providing water or moisture in the soil.