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Experimental Designs for the Selection of Integrated Farming System Components


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1 Post Graduate School, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
2 Division of Design of Experiments, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
3 Division of Fishery Resources Assessment, Economics and Extension, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi 682 018, India., India
 

Integrated farming system (IFS) approach is a powerful tool for ensuring the livelihood security of small and mar­ginal farmers. The precision of IFS experiments can be enhanced using statistical and computational tools. Two-part designs are helpful in selecting the best possible components in IFS. They involve two groups of treatment arranged in incomplete blocks with respect to both groups, and the concurrence of treatment pairs within and between groups is constant. The fusion of two incomplete block designs in a systematic manner can yield two-part designs. Further, for situations where certain experimental units are not available, two-part structurally incomplete designs are proposed.

Keywords

Block Designs, Integrated Farming System, Live-Lihood Security, Small and Marginal Farmers, Two-Part Designs.
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Authors

Sayantani Karmakar
Post Graduate School, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
Cini Varghese
Division of Design of Experiments, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
Mohd Harun
Division of Design of Experiments, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
L. N. Vinaykumar
Post Graduate School, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India., India
Eldho Varghese
Division of Fishery Resources Assessment, Economics and Extension, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi 682 018, India., India

Abstract


Integrated farming system (IFS) approach is a powerful tool for ensuring the livelihood security of small and mar­ginal farmers. The precision of IFS experiments can be enhanced using statistical and computational tools. Two-part designs are helpful in selecting the best possible components in IFS. They involve two groups of treatment arranged in incomplete blocks with respect to both groups, and the concurrence of treatment pairs within and between groups is constant. The fusion of two incomplete block designs in a systematic manner can yield two-part designs. Further, for situations where certain experimental units are not available, two-part structurally incomplete designs are proposed.

Keywords


Block Designs, Integrated Farming System, Live-Lihood Security, Small and Marginal Farmers, Two-Part Designs.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv124%2Fi9%2F1053-1057