Explain agroforestry as a category of social forestry.
Agroforestry:
(i)It is the raising of trees and agriculture crops on the same land inclusive of the waste patches.
(ii)It combines forestry with agriculture, thus, altering the simultaneous production of food, fodder, fuel, timber and fruit.
(iii)Community forestry involves the raising of trees on public or community land such as the village pasture and temple land, roadside, canal bank, strips along railway lines, and schools etc.
(iv)Community forestry programme aims at providing benefits to the community as a whole.
(v)Community forestry provides a means under which the people of landless classes can associate themselves in tree raising and thus, get those benefits which otherwise are restricted for landowners.
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