HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The three main components of agroforestry-animals, crops and trees-can be combined in numerous spatial and temporal arrangements and for different functions, creating thus many different kinds of systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Types of agroforestry The three elements, namely trees, animals, and crops, can be integrated into what is called agrosilvopastoral systems and are illustrated by home gardens involving animals as well as scattered trees on croplands used for grazing after harvests.

Detailed explanation-3: -Agroforestry is practiced in both irrigated and rain fed conditions where it produces food, fuel, fodder, timber, fertilizer and fibre, contributes to food, nutritional and ecological security, sustains livelihoods, alleviates poverty and promotes productive and resilient cropping and farming environments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Agroforestry is a mixture of components that consist of woody plants (timber, clump, palm, bamboo, and other cambium-borne plant species) with agricultural plants (seasonal species) and/or cattle, which set in temporal a arrangement and spatial arrangement as well (Sardjono et al., 2003).