Agro Forestry Oneliners

1. A system where agriculture and forestry are practised either simultaneously or separately on the same unit of land is called Agroforestry.

2. Agroforestry is a form of Multiple cropping.

3. The area under forest land in India is 67 mha (20.36%).

4. Optimum area under forest required is 33% of total geographical area.

5. Contribution of forest product in world GDP is 1%.

6. Indian Forest Act came into existence in 1927.

7. Forest Conservation Act was made in 1980.

8. Forest school is established at Dehradun.

9. The Van Mahotsav Day in India is observed on 1 July.

10. State having highest forest area in India is Madhya Pradesh (M.P.).

11. Forest type found maximum in India is Tropical dry deciduous forest.

12. National Research Centre for Agroforestry is situated at Jhansi (1988).

13. International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) is situated at Nairobi, Kenya.

14. The most important Agroforestry practice is Acacia leucophloea + Cenchrus setigerus.

15. The oldest known agroforestry practice is Shifting cultivation.

16. Cultivation of Trees + Crops is known as Agri-Silviculture.

17. Perennial hedges + crops is called Alley cropping.

18. Fruit trees + crops is called Agri-horticulture.

19. Trees + fruit trees + crops is called Agri-silvi-horticulture.

20. Trees + crops + pasture/animals is called Agri-silviculture.

21. Trees + pasture/animals is called Silvi-pasture.

22. Fruit trees + honeybees is called Horti-apiculture.

23. Trees + fishes is called Aqua-forestry.

24. Forage trees + pasture is called Forage forestry.

25. Trees + crops during initial years is called Energy plantation.

26. Multiple combination of trees, fruit trees, vegetables, etc. is called Homestead.

27. Trees on boundary + crops is called Boundary plantation.

28. Taungya system means Hill cultivation.

29. Most common example of taungya system is Planting of Teak in Myanmar.

30. Nitrogen fixing tree is Leucaena leucocephala.

31. Non-leguminous nitrogen fixing trees are Alnus nepalensis.

32. Bio-drainage plant is Eucalyptus tereticornis.

33. Most suitable woodlot trees in India are Casuarina and Leucaena.

34. Fodder producing tree is Prosopis cineraria.

35. Fuel wood tree is Albizia lebbeck.

36. Green manuring tree is Thespesia populnea.

37. Shifting cultivation causes Deforestation.

38. Miracle forest tree (provides fodder, fuel, pulpwood and timber) is Subabul.

39. Fast growing forest tree species is Eucalyptus sp..

40. Multipurpose tree species is Albizia lebbeck.

41. The most appropriate and effective type of crop cultivation in forests is Intercropping.

42. Ratanjot and Karanj are Biofuel plants.

43. Oil percentage in Ratanjot (Jatropha sp.) is 35% (from seed).

44. Spacing maintained between hedge row intercropping in alley cropping is 4-8 meter.

45. Tree species suitable for alley cropping are Cassia siamea, Leucaena and Sesbania.

46. Forestry outside the conventional forests which primarily aim at providing continuous flow of goods and services for the benefit of people is Social forestry.

47. A forest system which promotes commercial tree growing by farmers on their own land is Farm Forestry.

48. Pollarding is done at 2 m height from ground.

49. A belt of trees and/or shrubs maintained for the purpose of shelter from wind, sun, snow drift, etc. is called Shelterbelts.

50. A protective plantation in a certain area, against strong winds, usually comprised of a few rows of trees (or shrubs) is called Wind breaks.

51. Raising of forests on public or community land is called Community forestry.

52. The ratio of height, width and length in shelterbelt system is 1:25:10 meter.

53. A process in which the branch of a plant is cut off in order to produce a flush of new shoots is called Pollarding.

54. The main stem of a tree is called Bol.