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Agroforestry for Rural Needs

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Title Agroforestry for Rural Needs
 
Creator Khurana, D. K.
Khosla, P. K.
 
Subject 634.99 Agroforestry
 
Description Over the years, farmers have been integrating tree+crop+animal components for sustenance. With the passage of time the agricultural component received priority over woody elements for sustaining self-sufficiency in foodgrains. The population pressure resulted in small holdings and consequently lesser number of trees on the farms providing food, fodder, fibre, fuel, fertilizer, fruit, etc. The introduction of high yielding crops has no doubt resulted in self-sufficiency in foodgrains but its role in degrading top-soil by increasing salinization due to faulty irrigation, loss of fertility and deposition of non-biodegradable agricultural chemicals in soil can not be overlooked. In order to bring a balance between food sufficiency and ecological stability it is paramount to copy the nature by integrating different biota of life i.e. trees (dominants, co-dominants including fruit trees), shrubs and bushes. high value cash crops and/or animal husbandry. Unfortunately, these three pursuits, namely agriculture, forestry. and animal husbandry have grown independently but at the grass-root level they are inseparable because of being land based. Delinking these either at the village level, or in the governmental functioning would prove to be counter productive. The traditional systems which have been evolved by trial and error by our villagers, are to be preserved and improved by adding scientific input of tree+crop+animal modelling and by introducing superior genetic base in these polycultural systems.
 
Publisher Indian Society of Tree Scientists and Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry
 
Date 1993
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://hillagricrepository.co.in/1117/1/80201.pdf
Khurana, D. K. and Khosla, P. K. (1993) Agroforestry for Rural Needs. Indian Society of Tree Scientists and Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, India. ISBN 81-85838-01-1