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17. Increase the value of outputs from a given area of land.

18. Reduces in incidence of total crop failure, common to single or mono-
cropping systems.

19. Spreads the needs for labor inputs more evenly through the year.

20. Provides productive use of underutilized land, labor and capital.

21. Increases in levels of farm incomes and sustained productivity.

C. Social benefits:

Agroforestry provides social benefits like as follows:

22. Improved in rural living standards from sustained employment higher
incomes.
23. Improved in nutrition and health due to increased quality and diversity
of food outputs.
24. Stabilization and improvement of upland communities through
elimination of the need to shift sites of farm activities.

D. Biological benefits

The biological and physical interaction between crop and the livestock
components helps the following in an agroforestry farm like as follows:

25. Increase crop productivity
26. Sustain crop productivity
27. Produce diversified foods
28. Increase forest productivity
29. Increase fruit supply
30. Decrease weed infection

As well as building on practices used in forestry and agriculture,
agroforestry also works towards land protection and conservation through
more effective protection of stock, control of soil erosion, salinity and water
tables and a higher quality control of timber.

A denser, more-dependable tree covering can provide shelter to livestock
during the warmer months allowing the animals conserve energy. That same