HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
AGRO FORESTRY SYSTEMS
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A land management system based on sustainability, which increases overall land yields, combines crop production (including trees) and forest plants and/or animals simultaneously or sequentially on the same land units
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Forms of farm businesses (land treatment) that combine agricultural and forestry principles in the form of land use that can fulfill the needs of farmers, forests and / or breeders
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Land utilization system which includes social and ecological acceptance between trees and agricultural crops and / or animals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Agroforestry can also be defined as a dynamic, ecologically based, natural resource management system that, through the integration of trees on farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifies and sustains production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits for land users at all levels.
Detailed explanation-2: -Agroforestry is the planting of trees and agriculture crops on the same land including other waste patches; on the other hand farm forestry is where the farmers grow the trees for the commercial or noncommercial benefits on their farm lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nair (1979) defines agroforestry as a land use system that integrates trees, crops and animals in a way that is scientifically sound, ecologically desirable, practically feasible and socially acceptable to the farmers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agroforestry systems in Semiarid and arid lands Examples: Various forms of silvopastoral systems, wind breaks and shelterbelts. C) Agroforestry systems in Tropical High lands Examples: Production systems involving plantation crops such as coffee, tea, use of woody perennials in soil conservation and improved fallow.