GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Agroforestry is the relatively new name for the age-old practice of growing trees and shrubs with crops and/or animals in interacting combinations on the same unit of land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mixed forestry : It is the practice of forestry for raising fodder grass with scattered fodder trees, fruit trees and fuel wood trees on suitable wastelands, panchayat lands and village commons.

Detailed explanation-3: -✓ In agroforestry systems trees are grows in close proximity to crops and pastures. Various interactions take place between the trees and herbaceous plants (crops or pastures) which is referred to as tree-crop interface.

Detailed explanation-4: -Under agroforestry or agro-silvi-pastoral system, single, double or multiple crop and / or grass species such as single or double crops of maize, millet or grasses are planted between rows of tree species (e.g. Dalbergia sissoo) under various tree-crop intercropping systems.