Management of hill and mountain soil of North Eastern India through agroforestry interventions

Abstract

In order to feed the growing population, India has to produce more from the land available in the coming years. This quest for increasing food production with increaseing population pressure is likely to strain hilly and mountain eco-system. Marginal and sub-marginal lands have been brought under plough without taking adequate conservation measures. This has led to degradation of natural resources (land, water and vegetation) causing poor fertility status, soil erosion, low available soil moisture, acidic non-irrigated soil, etc. Thus it becomes imperative that management should be catered by subsequent systems as per the climatic variability resource available includes-agroforestry system, nutrient management strategies with efforts on mulchinguse of locally available materials etc.