2023, Vol. 8, Special Issue 6

Carbon management in forests is the global concern to mitigate the increased concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere. Reviving forest cover and finding low cost methods to seize carbon is emerging as a major international policy goal. However the global forest cover is dwindling fast in view of great biotic pressure, industrialization, urbanization, land use changes and conversion of forests to agricultural land. Agroforestry systems can play an important role in carbon mitigation programmers through carbon sequestration and can reduce the pressure on existing natural forests by providing fuel, fodder, timber and wood products to the farmers. India has a long tradition of agroforestry, several indigenous agroforestry systems, based on people’s needs and site-specific characteristics have been developed over the years. Agroforestry research was initiated in the country about three decades ago and several agroforestry technologies have been developed and tried on farmer’s lands Biomass and carbon allocation in Poplar agroforestry plantation in the Western Utter Pradesh, India have been studied and it is found that the Poplar agroforestry plantation in the Western Utter Pradesh had a significant amount of biomass and carbon, which acts as an additional carbon sink in the region. The above ground components were contributed 80.5% and below ground components were contributed 19.5% biomass to the total biomass. A total of 88.9 t C ha^-1 was stored in the 7-year-old, short rotation Populus deltoides plantation and by an average, a single tree accounts about 0.177 t C. Of the total carbon stored in the 7-year-old Poplar plantation.