Current Advances in Agricultural Sciences(An International Journal)

Agroforestry is an ecologically based approach for managing natural resources that sustains productivity and provides advantages to all land users. It conserves soil and improves soil fertility in addition to providing timber, feed, fuel wood, medicines, etc. By reducing soil erosion and runoff, preserving soil organic matter, enhancing soil physical, chemical, and biological properties, increasing nitrogen input from N-fixing trees and shrubs, mining minerals from lower horizons by roots, and recycling them through litter falling to the ground, soil fertility can be improved. The issue of environmental instability, which is brought on by increasing strain on the land resources as a result of population growth that won’t stop, has caused significant disruption to the natural ecosystems that are already in place. It is necessary to address these human disturbances and unsustainable use of the natural ecosystem, which posed a serious threat to the local biodiversity and resulted in environmental deterioration. Therefore, it is important to embrace agroforestry, a potential strategy of land use that combines various tree species with herbaceous crops. These systems have the capacity to boost household productivity generally and biodiversity in particular. Additionally, it aids in reducing climate change to ensure environmental sustainability. A proper model must be adapted towards the sustainability of the environment in order to fully utilize agroforestry practices and systems.