Introduction Agroforestry is a land management system that optimizes land productivity by harnessing positive interactions between tree-crop-livestock system. All agroforestry systems have evolved as livelihood systems. Their variations could be seen in form of small farmer’s home gardens to large farmers commercial agrisilvicultural or agrihorticultural systems. Landless and Marginal Farmers Landless labourer also earns his daily wages and livelihood. Meeting the basic need of biomass for forage and firewood is most important activity in such a system. Availability of more diversified on-farm employment, wood and NWFP based small industry, rural handicrafts. Creating rural opportunities for value addition of products and establishing mechanisms for efficient marketing product diversification, viz. bamboo matboards, panels, medicinal plant products etc. need to be created at village level to attract higher prices for the products. The increased availability of timber and pulpwood will help in reducing the annual import demands, which is currently estimated at Rs 60,000 million. |
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