what is agroforestry?

Answer 1

"Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. -National Agroforestry Center (NAC)"

Answer 2

Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. -National Agroforestry Center (NAC)

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) made this definition in 1993: "Agroforestry is a collective name for land use systems and practices in which woody perennials are deliberately integrated with crops and/or animals on the same land management unit. The integration can be either in a spatial mixture or in a temporal sequence. There are normally both ecological and economic interactions between woody and non-woody components in agroforestry". It means that trees are intentionally used within agricultural systems. Knowledge, careful selection of species and good management of trees and crops are needed to maximize the production and positive effects of trees and to minimise negative competitive effects on crops.

Answer 3

Forests are natural resources and most of the agriculture was for food crops and commercial crops like tobacco, jute etc. Growing forests like teak trees in a planned way for regualr yield of wood is agroforestry.

Answer 4

Agroforestry is the system of land use that combines growing and raising of crops and/or livestock along with plants that belong to the forest. It is a land-use method that allows trees to grow in crop and livestock areas..

Answer 5

Basically, it means instead of cutting down trees to plant a different crop, they cut down trees to grow more trees ;-)

Xmas trees is a good example of one totally wasteful form of agroforestry.

Answer 6

Your guess is as good as mine.