HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Agroforestry provides a number of environmental benefits as confirmed by scientific literature. The four major environmental benefits of agroforestry are (1) climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration, (2) biodiversity conservation, (3) soil health enrichment, and (4) air and water quality improvement.

Detailed explanation-2: -The benefits of agroforestry derive from the interactions between trees and shrubs and crops and livestock. Agroforestry seeks to optimize positive interactions, such as mutualism and commensalism, and to minimize predation on crops and livestock and competition within and between species.

Detailed explanation-3: -The agroforestry has brought improvement in socio-economic and ecological conditions of farmers by generating employment, increasing family income, enhancing the crop diversity and reducing dependency on natural forest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Agroforestry is a traditional land use system that may contribute to the solution of environmental problems in agriculture. Agroforestry is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crops and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions.