Agroforestry Systems for Soil Health Improvement and Maintenance

Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same piece of land, promoting more efficient utilization resources as compared to monocropping via structural and functional diversification components. This integration trees provides various soil-related ecological services such fertility enhancements improvements soil physical, biological, chemical properties, along food, wood, fodder. By providing a particular habitat, refugia for epigenic organisms, microclimate heterogeneity, buffering action, moisture, humidity, agroforestry can enhance biodiversity than monocropping. Various studies confirmed internal restoration potential agroforestry. reduces runoff, intercepts rainfall, binds particles together, helping erosion control. trade-off between non-cash crop production is not serious constraint on farmland also other important co-benefits practitioners. Tree-based systems increase livelihoods, yields, resilience agriculture, thereby ensuring nutrition food security. be cost-effective climate-smart farming practice, which will help cope climate-related extremities dryland areas cultivated by smallholders through diversifying improving protecting soil, reducing wind erosion. review highlighted role improvements, amelioration, productivity agroforestry, particularly semi-arid degraded under careful consideration management practices.