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Agroforestry has a lot in common with intercropping (the practice of
planting two or more crops on the same plot) with both practices placing an
emphasis on interaction between different plant species. Generally
speaking, both agroforestry and intercropping can result in higher overall
yields and reduced operational costs.

(9) Agroforestry is a collective name for land-use systems and technologies
where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc.) are
deliberately used on the same land-management units as agricultural crops
and/or animals, in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal
sequence. In agroforestry systems there are both ecological and economical
interactions between the different components (Lasco, 1986).

(10)Agroforestry can also be defined as a dynamic, ecologically based, natural
resource management system that, through the integration of trees on

farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifies and sustains
production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits for

land users at all levels. In particular, agroforestry is crucial to smallholder
farmers and other rural people because it can enhance their food supply,
income and health. Agroforestry systems are multifunctional systems that
can provide a wide range of economic, sociocultural, and environmental
benefits. (ICRAF Reprint No. 3)

(11) Agroforestry is a land management system combining food and
agricultural crop and/or animal in the same unit of land either single or
sequentially (Beetz, 2002 and Latap, 2015)

(12) Agroforestry is a farming system that combines the planting of
agricultural and forestry crops. Agroforestry has always two or more
outputs, i.e., for the purpose of conservation and socio-economic
productivity (Palma and Nagtalon, 2007 and Latap, 2015).

(13) A distant field of study which involves the raising of woody perennial in
conjunction with agricultural crops and/or livestock in a variety of time
and spatial arrangement.

(14) Is a sustainable management system for land that increase overall
production, combines agricultural cropland forest trees and or animal