Applications
Agroforestry represents a wide diversity in application and in practice. One listing includes over 40 distinct uses. The 40 or so applications can be roughly classified under a few broad headings. There are visual similarities between practices in different categories. This is expected as categorization is based around the problems addressed (countering winds, high rainfall, harmful insects, etc.) and the overall economic constraints and objectives (labor and other inputs costs, yield requirements, etc.). The categories include :
- Parklands
- Shade systems
- Crop-over-tree systems
- Alley cropping
- Strip cropping
- Fauna-based systems
- Boundary systems
- Taungyas
- Physical support systems
- Agroforests.
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