Agroforestry is the practice of raising tree and agricultural crops in a given space and time.It is an old age practice. The agroforestry system practised by Nepalese farmers vary according to location and altitude.The objective of developing agroforestry in Nepal is to meet the present and future requirements of fuelwood, fodder, small timber and to reduce environmental degradation. The agroforestry system of Nepal can be classified into :
- Farm based agroforestry system - It includes models like commercial crops under tree (eg. tea , coffee), tree in and around agriculture (fields, homegarden, etc.)
- Forestry based agroforestry system - This system is practiced only in terai region of Nepal. The aim of this system is to encourage farmers to inter crop agricultural crops in between rows of trees.
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