Integrated farming system

Abstract

The cost of food production and processing has become prohibitive in most Third World countries because of the high prices of fuel, feed and fertilizer that are usually imported from the developed countries. So the tendency is to import the food itself from the developed countries — at comparatively lower prices but still very high when the respective wage levels are taken into consideration — while the people of the Third World become more and more underemployed. It is obvious that the Third World countries can only solve their food problems if they can solve their fuel, feed and fertilizer problems.

An integrated farming system is proposed as a means of reducing the cost of fuel, feed and fertilizer with the minimum capital investment.