Vol. 12, Special Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Alok Kumar Singh, Nasam Midhun Kumar, Bipin Kumar Singh, Dheer Agnihotri and Makhan Singh Karada

Abstract:
Agroforestry is a unique land management approach that blends Agriculture, Forestry and or Livestock/Pasture on the same land to enhance productivity, profitability and environmental stability. It provides direct and indirect benefits and produces variety of products like timber, fuelwood, fruits, fodder etc., to meet household needs and to generate some income through sale in local markets. Market system approach focuses on connecting farmer to local and regional markets supporting farmer organizations can strengthen their positions in negotiating prices and enables them to access finance, training, input services. The provision of a market support system for a wide range of pulp wood, plywood, timber exerted a significant influence among tree-growing farmers. Commodity value chains are the full range of activities which are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production, transformation and delivery to final consumers, and eventual disposal after use. Marketing at the farmer level has received little attention in the past and poorly understood. In order to sustain these value chain innovations and interventions the institutional development mechanisms and activities need to be accelerated which shall help to resolve the issues of raw material security. By understanding market linkages and interactions, it should be possible to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods by focusing their agroforestry production towards market opportunities. The commodity value chains have found that agroforestry can become an increasing part of a production and marketing system for different products that is sustained by the value chain participants.