1Department of Silviculture and Agroforestry, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173 230, India
Division of Agroforestry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu-180 009, India
*E-mail: jigmetnamgial1@gmail.com
Online published on 27 January, 2023.
Agroforestry is a sustainable land use system which has the potential to contribute to the improvement of rural livelihood and at the same time helps in fighting against global warming by sequestration of atmospheric carbon. Therefore in the present study, an attempt was made to estimate the total biomass production and carbon storage potential of seven different land use systems viz. agriculture, horticulture, agrisilviculture, agrihortisilviculture, silvipasture, hortisilvipasture and agrihorticulture in Leh region of Himalayan cold desert in the year 2017 2018. The hortisilvipasture land use system recorded maximum total biomass production (30.88 t ha−1) and total carbon stock (15.44 t ha−1) whereas, the minimum total biomass production (8.76 t ha−1) and total carbon stock (4.38 t ha−1) was in agriculture land use system.
Biomass, Carbon, Cold desert, Himalayas and land use
