Author(s):

Sonam Rajput, PK Varshney and Vijay Upadhyay

Abstract: Agroforestry is the deliberate growing of trees in conjunction with agricultural crops on the same unit of land organized in temporal and spatial mixture or sequence for benefits and services. Uttar Pradesh one of the largest and densely populated state in Indo-Gangetic plain with large agrarian communities, UP is not only the most populated sate, but also major contributor to the national food grain stock of India. The state of Uttar Pradesh with 6.09% of its land area under forest cover of its geographical area required to be maintained under forests as per the National Forest Policy, 1988. Using wood pulp as a raw material from Eucalyptus, Bamboo, Popular and other species also engaged in implementing and promoting agroforestry and social forestry programme on large scale in different districts of Uttar Pradesh. Rural people have been practicing tree planting with crops in their farms and homesteads to meet household requirements of fuel, poles, timber and medical plants and encouraged to generate high income.

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