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Improving Livelihood Through Agroforestry in Hot Arid Region

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Title Improving Livelihood Through Agroforestry in Hot Arid Region
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Creator JC Tewari
Kamlesh Pareek
Shiran K
 
Subject drought resistant,multipurpose trees fuel, fodder
 
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According to conservative estimates, arid zones and their advances affect
around 600 million people directly or indirectly. Desertification or land
degradation processes represent a struggle in which man and land are engaged.
It must be admitted that man himself or the increase of his population and of his
livestock contribute to the expansion of desertification or land degradation
processes. And yet, he suffers the worst consequence of such processes by
having to be satisfied with left over land. The arid zones of USA, Arabian
peninsula, some central Asian and middle-east, countries, Australia and other
petroleum rich countries meet out their domestic energy need through petroleum
products and natural gas, however, contrary to this, in arid regions of India,
woody vegetation resources form the main sources of fuel, besides, contributing
to requirement of small timber and fencing material rural folk in this principal
hot arid region of the country have been practising arable cropping in
association with scattered trees on crop fields since time in memorial. As most
trees are drought resistant, these are still able to provide fuel, fodder and other
products when arable crops fail due to drought which is a common feature in
the region. In fact, multipurpose trees in agroforestry systems provide a rational
formula for drylands. In hot arid regions trees on farmlands are the organisms
with an ecological investment strategy. Matter and energy are immobilized in
long lived trees and majority of this accumulated production is harvested at
longer interval than in case of arable crops, which is often very important from
food security point of view.
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Date 2019-05-27T10:59:51Z
2019-05-27T10:59:51Z
2017-01-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/19920
 
Language English
 
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Publisher New India Publishing Agency