Agroforestry

ISBN-13: 9783845471846 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str.

Habibullah Magsi

Opis

Developing countries like Pakistan are mostly depending on agriculture and farm business, if they wish to enhance their economies, it is important to protect farmers by increasing their source of income. Therefore, this empirical research is exposing a new source of revenue on farm gates, while dealing with the economics of agroforestry system in Pakistan. Author encourages farm business owners to generate additional revenue by adopting the agroforestry system on their farmlands. From this research, it is observed that in Pakistan the agroforestry is helping to meet the increasing demands of wood and wood products. Furthermore, besides additional income the agroforestry system also reclaims the soil condition and increases its fertility, with many environmental benefits. The author encourages to the farmers to enhance this system on unproductive lands in order to make them fertile and cultivable.

O autorze

(7th August 1979) is working as a Lecturer in the department of Agricultural Economics at Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam, Pakistan. Currently Mr Magsi is perusing his doctoral research studies in the field of Economics at SAD-APT, INRA AgroParisTech, France.