Agroforestry

Significance

  • Environment Benefits
    • Reduction of pressure on forest.
    • More efficient recycling of nutrients by deep-rooted trees on the site.
    • Better protection of ecological systems.
    • Reduction of surface run-off, nutrient leaching and soil erosion through impending effect of tree roots and stems of these processes.
    • Improvement of microclimate, such as lowering of soil surface temperature and reduction of evaporation of soil moisture through a combination of mulching and shading.
    • Increment in soil nutrients through addition and decomposition of litter-fall.
    • Improvement of soil structure through the constant addition of organic matter from decomposed litter.
  • Economic Benefits
    • Increment in the maintenance of outputs of food, fuelwood, fodder, fertilizer and timber;
    • Reduction in ....
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