FORESTRY
AGROFORESTRY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Consider how much of the scrub or brush to remove
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Talk to a real estate agent
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Consider clear cutting the entire track
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Think about selling the land for a grocery store
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alley cropping, also known as hedgerow intercropping, In this perennial, preferably leguminous trees or shrubs are grown simultaneously with an arable crop. The trees, managed as hedgerows, are grown in wide rows and the crop is planted in the interspace or ‘alley’ between the tree rows.
Detailed explanation-2: -If possible examine some examples of good agroforestry trees such as leuceana, cassia, prosopis, calliandra, acacia, sesbania and moringa.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.