DUMANYIE HOPE .N.

MAT NO: U2008/5020204 What is Agroforesty: Agroforesty is a collective terms for system on technologies of land use where perennial woody plant (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos. Etc) are deliberately cultivated on the same land management units as agricultural crops and / or animals in a spatial or temporal arrangement, and where there are both ecological and economic interaction between the woody plants and other components of the system. Which means is a dynamic, ecologically based natural resources management practice that, through the integration of trees on farm and in the agricultural landscape, diversities and sustains production for increase, social economic and environmental benefits. Importance of Agroforesty Agroforesty is important for the fact that it represents an interface between agriculture and forestry and encompasses mixed land use practice, which has been developed primarily in response to the special needs and condition of tropical developing countries that have not been satisfactorily addressed by advances in conventional agriculture or forestry. The needs include the solution to the problem of degraded soil, land tenure, shortage of fodder, fuel wood, timber and subsistence farming. Agroforesty is also important in the following headings: 1.Food:
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Food for man from trees as fruits, nuts and cereal substitutes.

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Micro-climates improvement due to trees, particularly shelter-belts. Water: Improvement of soil moisture, retention in rainfed croplands and pasture through improved soil structure and micro climate effect of trees.

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Shelter: Building materials for shelter construction.

4.Raw materials:
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Raw material for pulp and paper industry. Fiber for weaving. Cash: Direct cash benefit from sales of tree products.

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In the strick sense relating what agrofrostry is and it important to the environment, my community (wiinorteem Bori) and the entire famers, foresters should be convinced about modern farming method because over emphasis on food production and indiscriminate dichotomy between forest and agriculture under the modern farming has created problem in land mark especially were there is high pressure on land, as small agricultural land becomes degraded and unproductive through the adoption of inappropriate of western technology more forest land is cleared of trees and more unproductive created. The land resources base on which the lively hood of large proportion of the population depends as thus, continue to decline and with its food and wood production as also continue to decline. These can cause threaten of food security in the community but the moment the entire community adopt and embrace the method and practice of agroforesty which

has the capability to increase the productivity and at the same time maintain the nutrient balance as well as protect the nature. Due to its technical and economic potential, it can sustain agriculture production. It is only the knowledge of agrofrorstry that can help the community to recognize the importance of prevailing tropical ecology which requires multistructueral/multifunctional agro-ecosystem to sustain high plants productive. These can maximize food production on the available land and ensure food security.