Abstract
Agroforestry is a multidisciplinary endeavour that brings the forester in contact with agriculturist, livestock producer and the social scientist; their close and pleasant working relationship can boost their capabilities and effectiveness in making this innovation a success. Presently, the agriculture sector, including livestock, is under stress. In general crop and animal yields are low. Waterlogging and salinity have damaged much of the fertile agricultural land. In view of high man-land ratio and limited prospects of increasing arable land, increased production has to be achieved through increased yield per hectare. To meet this challenge, the scientists are now trying to convince farmers to adopt agroforestry practices. Agroforestry can help restore degraded environment. It can lead to sustained land management, increasing the overall yield of land through a combination of crops, trees and animals on the same unit of land. Such integrated land-use approach is widely needed in countries like Pakistan. Various constraints obstructing the large scale adoption of agroforestry systems have been discussed. The package of agroforestry technology needs to be so designed as to make it socially, ecologically and economically acceptable to farmers and must have advantage over the existing systems.
