Author(s): Arvind Kumar Tripathi, SK Verma, Gaurav Kumar, Ramesh Singh, Mayank Jain and Ratnakar Pathak

Abstract: Socio-economic status and livelihood support through traditional agroforestry systems in certain village’s of sohawal block on farm production of commercial crops, fruits, vegetables and woody perennials on the same piece of field. Present study revealed that literacy rate of farmers and their family members become gradually increasing from marginal 62% to large 82% category of respondents in this block. Major domesticated animals are cows, goat and buffalo. Through Milk production get additional income to improve economic and social issues of various categories of farmer’s. Combination of trees and crops provides sustainable farming approaches in agroforestry provide opportunity to deliver multiple yields from per unit area of land. Present study expressed combination of tree and crops might easily adopted at any kind of land or several locations on given sites and most dominated system is agri-silviculture which is most probably adopted by the farmers other systems such as agri-horti system, agri-silvi-horti systems respectively. Most preferred trees species are Eucalyptus species, Tectona grandis, Dalbergia sissoo, Madhuka latifoloa and Mangifera indica, Psidium guajava, Emblica officinalis are common fruit species used for self-consumption and sale. During study identified various land use practices viz. agroforestry, fisheries, raising plantations, Orchard. Hence, Agroforestry systems gave better response in terms of vegetation increasing tree cover to fulfil the criteria of 33 % forest on any geographical area recorded to (1988, National forest policy) to the country.

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