Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Bhupendra Singh, Ram Karan Chauhan, Aditya Kumar Jayant and Bhanu Pratap Patidar

Abstract:
Agroforestry is a promising land use practice to maintain or increase agricultural productivity while preserving or improving soil fertility. This paper is based on survey shows that most of the farmers of Hadoti region are growing mainly Horti-silvicultural (HS), Agri-silvi-horticultural (ASH), Agri-silvicultural (AS), Agri-horticultural (AH), Home-garden (HG), Horti-pastural (HP), Silvi-pastural (SP) and Apiculture (AP) at their field. Farmers of this region are adopting Agri-silvicultural (AS) system as teak, neem, babul as a boundary plantation with mustard, coriander and wheat crops mainly. Secondly, farmers adopting Agri-horticultural (AH) system in which farmers raise mandarin, lemon, guava with different types of agricultural crops. These exiting agroforestry systems provide more return per unit area as compared to mono cropping. These types of agroforestry systems are most important for fulfil of basic needs of farmers and for improving the microclimate of this region.