National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
In India, major Agroforestry systems are estimated to cover 25.32 million ha. That is approximate 8.32% of total geographic area of country. Agrosilviculture practice includes alley cropping, multiple cropping and inters cropping. Aquasilvicultures, e.g. tree-fish-arable crop and tree-fish-livestock systems, are alternatives for land use in the wetlands. Agri-Silvopastoral systems are popular in the southern region (Home garden in Kerala). However, compared to a monoculture, well-managed systems have many benefits but particular system not popularized at large scale in country. The major constraint on Agroforestry is that lack of proper management, shortage of technical support, rigid policy of harvesting of tree products and informal, unstructured market. Due to these reason farmers are disappointing to grow tree on their field resultant that the principle of Agroforestry are not applied at large scale in country. However, there is a great potential for the development of Agroforestry in India. This paper presents recommendations concerning policy options, technical support, extension, and marketing in Agroforestry.
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