Effect of forest vs fruit trees on wheat crop
Effect of forest vs fruit trees on wheat crop
Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Hafeez
ABSTRACT
Intro:
Farmers are growing fruit trees with agricultural crops since the time immemorial. They hesitate to grow forest trees on their farms as they think them less beneficial and more harmful to farm crops than fruit trees. Although fruits give direct satisfaction to the consumers but wood with several other important utilities has an unavoidable use of cooking food for human life.
Due to fast growing population, wood is becoming a scarce commodity in Pakistan. Productive land is also becoming short due to essential colonization for excessive population. Moreover, to feed this increasing population,more and more land is being put under food-production. The above situation leaves no way to increase the area under wood production. So, to cater for wood demand in the country, there exists no alternative except the immediate adoption of agroforestry (Rashid & Hafeez, 1991).
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