Potential of agroforestry and constraints faced by the farmers in its adaptation in district Peshawar, Pakistan
Potential of agroforestry and constraints faced by the farmers in its adaptation in district Peshawar, Pakistan
Syed Farooq Shah1, Nowsherwan Zarif1*, Zahid Rauf1, Anwar Ali1, Ghayyas Ahmed1, Basheer Ahmed1, Salman Ahmad1 and Saifullah1
ABSTRACT
Agroforestry provides the exceptional potential to boost biodiversity, stop land degradation, and reduce poverty, especially in developing nations, but the reasons why farmers don't use it are not well understood. A variety of biotic and abiotic variables are contributing to the global decline in the size and health of forest ecosystems. Pakistan needs efficient food systems that enhance outputs, strengthen the economy, improve the environment, and retain societal acceptance. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop agroforestry across the province. This will increase agricultural revenue, reduce land degradation, raise agro-biodiversity, and increase carbon stocks in farming systems. The Peshawar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan underwent a survey of farm households to study the factors that affect the potential of agroforestry and the challenges that farmers confront in implementing it. The opportunity to achieve these objectives exists because of Pakistan's traditional agroforestry land management method. The ownership of any timber resource can be established by planting trees on privately owned farms, and well-managed systems have a tremendous deal of potential to both improve agriculture and ease the wood crisis. However, agroforestry practices are being adopted slowly in the province for several reasons. The main causes for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's slowdown adoption of agroforestry practices are farmers' attitudes and perceptions, tiny landholdings, the land tenure structure, restricted marketing options, and a lack of planting materials. The present review study shows the potential of an agroforestry system to maximize various socioeconomic benefits, including food, fuelwood, fodder, fiber, timber, non-timber forest products, supplementary income, etc. Agroforestry systems' potential to provide farms with environmental services protecting soil erosion, bioenergy, the effects of trees in agricultural landscapes on carbon sequestration, sustainable land management techniques, pest control by natural enemies, and the global habitat for biological variety are all important. According to the study, cultivators in the country should be knowledgeable about the potential benefits of agroforestry systems. They should work to make the system's development economically and environmentally beneficial for farmers worldwide. The agroforestry system has the potential to give a faster rate of tree farm increment in accordance with forest policies for the sustainable livelihood of the farmers, thereby increasing the global tree cover areas relative to total geographic regions.
Keywords: Potential of Agroforestry, Climate change, Plantation, Farmers, Adaptation.
Keywords: Potential of Agroforestry, Climate change, Plantation, Farmers, Adaptation.
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June 2020
Vol. 70, Iss. 2
