INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND - Volume 3, Issue 4 , December 2014

Pages: 30-48

Date of Publication: 01-Dec-2014

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF AGROFORESTRY IN PULWAMA DISTRICT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR

Author: Rafiq Hussain Andrabi, ? Dr Harmeet Singh, ??

Category: Engineering, Science and Mathematics

Abstract:

Agroforestry is an inter disciplinary, multi-sector approach of land use. Its prime objective is overall optimization and to protect the environment and maintain the ecological integrity. Agroforestry is primarily the technology of using perennial vegetation in combination with seasonal or perennial field crop, fodder or other crops of economic value in agriculture. In the developed agroforestry systems, there are three components i.e, the woody perennials, the agricultural crops and the animals. However in all the agroforestry systems the presence of tree component is must and it plays the dominant roles-the trees have two major roles-the productive role (fuel, fodder, food, fruit and fertilizer) and the service roles (soil and moisture conservation, wind break, shelter belts, shade etc.)

Keywords: Agroforestry, Perennial, Integrated, Socio-economic, Profitable