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Few farming systems confine themselves to one enterprise, producing one main product. Most are mixtures of several, often quite different, enterprises, so it would seem that a very high proportion of the world’s agriculture could be said to be engaged in mixed farming. This is not a very helpful view, however, and it is more useful to confine the term to situations where crop and livestock production are integrated.
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Farming Systems of the World. A. N. Duckham and G. B. Masefield, 1970. Chatto & Windus.
The Farm Business. L. Norman and R. B. Coote, 1971. Longman.
The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. T. P. Bayliss-Smith, 1982. Cambridge University Press.
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Spedding, C.R.W. (1988). Mixed Farming Systems. In: An Introduction to Agricultural Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6408-5_10
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