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 ....