LIFE SCIENCES
Concepts Of Agroforesty
by R. Shankar
ISBN Number : 978 - 1- 73032 - 914 - 2
Authors Details
| Author Name | Image | About Author |
|---|---|---|
| R. Shankar |  |
R. Shankar completed his graduate and post graduation in Department
of Agronomy form college of Agriculture Rajendranagar Acharya N G
Ranga agriculture university. He did hid research work on Agroforestry
systems and He has to his credit 11 international papers. He participated
in national and international seminars and workshops. |
| Dr. Ch. Chandra Sekhar |  |
Dr. Ch. Chandra Sekhar has completed his graduation in Agricultural
College, Naira, post graduation in the Department of Soil Science and
Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural College, Bapatla, ANGRAU and
PhD in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry,
College of Agriculture, PJTSAU, Hyderabad. He worked as Senior
Research Fellow at STCR, ARI, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad and he has
been working as Research Associate at ICAR-CRIDA, Santoshnagar,
Hyderabad for the last two years. |
| Dr.K.B.Suneetha Devi |  |
Dr.K.B.Suneetha Devi, Professor, Department of Agronomy, College of
Agriculture, Professor JayashankarTelangana State Agricultural
University, Hyderabad, Telangana was born in the year 1968 in Kurnool
district, Andhra Pradesh. She did her doctoral studies at ANGRAU,
Hyderabad and joined in the same university as Assistant Agronomist in
the year 1994. She worked 12 years in Research on sugarcane, rice and
forage crops before starting teaching career. She is working as Professor
since 2009, guided 2 PhD and 12 M.Sc students. She is specialised in
irrigation water management, rice and forage crop production
technology and organic farming. She has 35 research publications, 3
practical manuals and 2 text books (as II and III author). |
| B. Soumya |  |
B. Soumya graduated from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural
University, Hyderabad with first class. She obtained her M.Sc. (Ag.)
from same university with gold medal. She secured her Ph.D. in
Agronomy from Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural
University, Hyderabad. She has an experience of 3 years in teaching,
research and extension. She published about 10 scientific articles in
national and international journals |
Book Description
Agroforestry is rapidly being transformed from an empirical, largely anecdotal collection of beliefs and practices into an emerging science in the field of natural resource management. Due to rapid growth in population, demand for wood and other forest products is increasing. The state of forest in this country is thus, insufficient to meet the timber and fire-wood requirements for growing population of the country. In the domestic production of forest products, these requirements are met through agroforestry, which refers to the plantation of forest trees on agriculture land. Agroforestry is the collective name for land use systems and technologies where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, bamboos, etc.) are deliberately used on the same land management unit as agricultural crops and/or animals, either in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence (ICRAF, 2006). Tree cultivation for reasons like windbreaks, soil and water conservation had become a secondary objective of agroforestry growers, while the current primary objective of tree planting was for cash and investment. According to Gangadharappa et al., (2004), 37 percent of the agroforesty growers cut the trees in the age group of 20-30 years followed by 25 percent between 30-40 years and only 17 percent of farmers harvested above 40 years old trees. Further they revealed that 62 percent of the farmers sold their products through forest contractors, 27 percent through saw-mill owners and 11 percent directly to consumers.
