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simultaneously or sequentially and applies management practices that
are compatible with the cultural patterns of the local population.

(15) An approach to land use in which woody perennial are deliberately grown
with agricultural crops simultaneously or sequentially in the same unit
of land.

In summary, some basic ideas emerging from the definition of Agroforestry
were as follows:

 Agroforestry involves two or more species of plants (or plants and
animals), at least one of which is woody.

 An agroforestry farming system (AFS) has always two or more outputs.
It involves the production of multiple outputs plus the protection of the
resource base.

 Cycle of the AFS is always more than one year.

 Positive and negative interactions are exhibited among components
(tree, crop)

 Even the simplest AFS is more complex ecologically (structurally and
functionally) and economically, than a mono-cropping system. It is
structurally and functionally more complex than monoculture.

 It involves the interplay of socio-cultural values more than in most
other land use systems.

Objectives of Agroforestry

In all agroforestry land management, the following are essential and related
aims such as:
 Conserve and improve the site,

 Optimize the combined production of trees, agricultural crops and
animal,

 To raise the production of food crops, legumes and tuber to meet the
rapidly growing food requirements of the Indian population.

 Agroforestry aims at promoting production of, vegetables, pulses, milk
and meat.