Environment
Agro forestry and Environment Farming is well known as a significant
contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions accounting for 24 per cent
globally and India alone shares 6 per cent of global gas emissions. The climate
smart technologies like crop management and land management have the latent to curtail
these green house emissions. The cultivation and conservation of trees in
agricultural practices or agroforestry, is an important climate-smart solution
with additional socio- economical benefits for the farming community. The
knowledge centres like agricultural universities, research centre have
advocated a wide range of practices including silvipasture (combining trees with
pasture or livestock grazing areas), alley cropping (planting single rows of
trees and growing crops in the alley ways in between), forest farming (the
cultivation of shade-tolerant crops under the protection of a managed forest)
etc., In recent years, the impact of climate change is dread some which results
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