1st Assignment

SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT

AGR 701

NAME: NUR HAMIZAH BINTI MOHAMED KHAMIS

LECTURER: PROF MADYA DR. ADZMI YAACOB

ID: 2013573639

CODE: AT 770

1) Explain the concept of agroforestry.

Agroforestry is the production and cultivation of trees and of non-tree crops or animals on the same piece of land. The crops can be grown together at the same time, can be grown in rotation, or can even be grown in separate plots when materials from one are used to benefit another. Thus second definition of agroforestry would be the integration of trees, plants, and animals in conservative, long-term, productive systems. Agroforestry can be considered more as an approach than as a single finished technology. Although several finished systems have been devised and tested, such technology may require adjustment for particular situations.

Agroforestry has been defined as a dynamic, ecologically based natural resources management system that through the integration of trees on farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifies and sustains production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits for land users at all levels (Leakey, 1996). Agroforestry, generally refers to land used system or farming system in which trees or shrubs are grown in association with agricultural crops, pastures or livestock and in which there is ecological and economic interaction between the trees and other components. Agroforestry practice is a distinctive arrangement of components in space and time. It is a specific local example of a practice, e.g Taungya. It is characterized by environment, plant species, and arrangement, management, social and economic functions. There are several range and classification of agroforestry practices such as agro silvo-pastoral in which trees are integrated with pastures and livestock. It is essentially the practice of animal production along with trees and pastures, next is Shifting cultivation in which plots of land are...