Agroforestry and Environmental Managerment

1. AGROFORESTRY
MGT 302,3rd SEM
MBA Reg(Evening)
I.M.K

2. AGROFORESTRY
J. Russell
Smith
• Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (1929)
Land-use involving trees combined with crops, animals etc.
It combines:
Multiple Outputs.
Fragile Environments
Complex than Monoculture methods
Interplay of Socio Cultural Values

3. ICAR definition
• Agroforestry is:
• Sustainable land-use system
• Maintains / increases total yields
• It combines annuals with perennials / live
Stock
• Using Management Practices
• Social and Cultural Characteristics of local
people and economic and ecological
condition of

4. SOCIAL FORESTRY
• Forestry outside conventional forests for
providing continuous flow of goods and
services for the benefit of people.

5. FORESTRY
• Farm Forestry
• Extension Forestry
• Mixed Forestry
• Recreation Forestry
• Aesthetic Forestry

6. TYPES
I. SILVO ARABLE or AGRISILIVCULTRUAL SYSTEM
Agricultural crops and trees are grown together.

7. TYPES
II. SILVO PASTORAL SYSTEM
Pasture for live stock along with tree crop.

8. TYPES
III. AGROSILVOPASTORAL SYSTEM
Production of woody perennials combined with
annuals and pastures

9. TYPES
IV. WIND BREAK SYSTEM
One or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such
a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to
protect soil from erosion

10. TYPES
V. RIPARIAN FOREST BUFFERS
A riparian forest buffer is an area adjacent to a stream, lake, or
wetland that contains a combination of trees primarily to
provide conservation benefits.

11. FUNCTION
• PRODUCTIVE FUNCTION
• Food
• Fodder
• Fuel
• Cloth
• Shelter
• NTFP

12. FUNCTION
• PROTECTIVE FUNCTION
• Wind Break
• Shelterbelt
• Soil Conservation
• Soil Improvement

13. BENEFITS
• ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT
• Reduction of pressure on natural forest
• Nutrition Recycling
• Protection of Ecological System
• Reduce surface run-off, soil erosion
• Carbon Sequestration
• Improvement of soil structure

14. BENEFITS
• ECONOMIC BENEFIT
• Increment in food, fuelwood, fodder etc.
• Reduction in incidence of total crop failure
• Increase in levels of farm income

15. BENEFITS
• SOCIAL BENEFIT
• Higher income for farmers
• Improved living conditions
• Safety of upland communities