• IFS is more profitable than only cropping systems
• Integration of livestock with crops and fish with duck and poultry helps in reducing production cost.
• IFS can be a viable option to diversify R-W cropping system.
• How it can help in improving livelihood of small and marginal farmers and attract rural youth for entrepreneurship?
• Nutritional functional diversity (NFD)
• Sustainability of the IFS model.
Principal Scientist, Division of Agronomy, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi