For b.Sc. Ag. students

1. AGROFORESTRY
SYSTEM
Dr. Indresh Kumar

2. AGROFORESTRY
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 piece of land
management units as agricultural crops and/or
animals in some form of spatial arrangement or
temporal sequence and there must be both
ecological and economical interactions between
different components. (Lundgren and Raintree,
1982)

3. AGROFORESTRY

4. AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM

6. TYPE OF AGROFORESTRY
SYSTEM
➢Functional basis – Production
Protection
➢Structural basis - (i) Agri-silviculture
(ii)Silvipastoral system
(iii) Agrisilvipastoral system

8. AGRI-SILVICULTURE
When agricultural crops are grown in
combination with forest tree species, the system is
known as“Agrisilviculture”

9. WAYS TO GROW TREE CROPS
WITH
AGRICULTURAL CROPS
➢Tree species on the border of crop field or
orchard.
➢Tree species and agricultural crops in
alternate rows.
➢Tree species and agricultural crops in
alternate strips.
➢Tree species and agricultural crops in
mixed form

10. DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS
FOR AGROFORESTRY TREES
➢Tree species selected should not interfere with soil
moisture
➢Tree species should not compete for plant nutrients
➢Tree species should not compete for sunlight
➢Tree species should have high survival rate and easy
establishment
➢Tree species should have fast growing habit and easy
management
➢Tree species should have high palatability(स्वादिष्ट) as a
fodder
➢Tree species should have nutrient cycling and
nitrogen fixation attributes

11. IMPORTANT TREES SUTABLE FOR
AGROFORESTRY
➢Subabul (Leucaena leucocephala) / सुब्बुल
➢Teak (Tactona grandis )/ सागौन।
➢Acacia (Acacia spp. )/ बबूल।
➢Bamboo (Bambusa spp.)/ बााँस।
➢Caesalpinia(Caesalpinia pulcherrima) / गुलमोहर।
➢Karanj (Milletia pinnata. )/ करंज।
➢Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus obliqua )/ नीलगगरर
➢Guava(Psidium guajava)/ अमरूि
➢Amala(Phyllanthus emblica)/ आंवला
➢Mango(Mangifera indica)/ आम

12. THANK YOU