HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -These four key characteristics-intentional, intensive, interactive and integrated-are the essence of agroforestry and are what distinguish it from other farming or forestry practices.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agroforestry is a collective name for land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc.) are deliberately used on the same land-management units as agricultural crops and/or animals, in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tree species should not interrupt sunlight falling on the crops. Tree species should be light branching in their habit. Trees permit the penetration of light into the ground and promote better crop, pasture growth and yield. Tree species can withstand pruning operation if it posses dense canopy.

Detailed explanation-4: -agroforestry, cultivation and use of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock in agricultural systems. Agroforestry seeks positive interactions between its components, aiming to achieve a more ecologically diverse and socially productive output from the land than is possible through conventional agriculture.