Agfo case studies of india

Agfo case studies of india

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  Case studies ondifferent agroforestry systems of india SUBMITTED BY: Soubhagya Smruti Ranjan Tripathy 01SAF/16
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  Poplar based AgroforestrySystem in Punjab The farmers of Punjab have taken to tree planting on their private lands in a big way. They have raised Eucalyptus and poplar plantations on a large tract. The major production of poplar wood in the state is consumed by plywood industries. In Punjab, 75 units (big and small) are manufacturing plywood and plyboard. The plywood industry in Punjab has expanded by almost 50 per cent from 49 units in 1993 and 75 units in 1998. The central zone has a poplar farming belt as 68% tree growers are practicing poplar based agroforestry system.
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  Large percentage ofpoplar growing farmers are planting this species in riverine belts of Satlej and Beas. Poplars are grown on agricultural lands either in single rows along field or farm boundaries or even in block plantation at a spacing of 5 x 4m or 7 x 3m along with annual agricultural crops. The farmers are growing poplars along with cash crops like sugarcane, wheat, oats, maize, and several other fodder crops. Poplars, being deciduous, any ‘rabi’ crop can be successfully grown under poplar. Later, growing only ‘rabi’ crops mainly wheat, oats, fodder (berseem), mustard, vegetables etc. However, it has been observed that intercropping keeps that pest population of defoliators under control. Poplar+ wheat + fodderbased agroforestry system is a great success in Punjab. Continue…
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  Green man SurindarSingh Hara of Haryana When? The big change came about 30 years ago when matchstick manufacturer WIMCO needed farmers to grow poplar trees for the industry. They supplied the right kind of trees suitable for our north Indian climate and offered an attractive buy-back scheme. Along with another young farmer, Bharat Kalsia, he took on the adventure. Why? At Farms, with superior poplar clones found suitable for the local soil & climate, 20 tn/ac can be produced every year on a 10-year cycle. It is estimated that in his local area, 15,000 tn of timber is marketed every day and products worth $ 5-6 mil are manufactured & exported throughout India and the Middle East by about 400 wood processing facilities that have been established since 1992. If we include wood production and factories in other parts of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, an estimated 50,000 tonne of timber is being processed to produce $ 40-50 million worth of products every day.
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  CASE STUDY ONAGROFORESTRY PRACTICES IN KORAPUT DISTRICT PERSONAL PROFILE OF FARMER Name of the farmer - TIMA MINIYAKA Name of the village - Kutinga Block - Laxmipur District - Koraput Area of land - 10 ac (4 ha) Soil type - Red & laterite soil Agroforestry model - silvihorticulture The whole cultivable land is in scattered form as follows – a. 6 acres farm land (1 km away from his destination) b. 1 acre backyard land c. 3 acre rice field
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   Tima wasprimarily confined to eucalyptus plantation (10000 no’s) in his 6 ac.(2.4 ha) cultivable land with a spacing of 1.5m x1.5m for pulpwood production.  Out of these, approx. 80% seedlings survived in his field.  The whole cultivation cost was around Rs 50,000 (including procurement of seedlings @ Re1/seedling i.e, Rs 10000 for planting, fertilizer, pesticide & other amenities).  After 4 years, he managed to get Rs 237000/- from 95 ton eucalyptus wood (@2.5 Rs/kg) which provided him an net income of Rs 187000/- only.  In his backyard land he cultivated millets like suam, Ragi & brinjal mainly for consumption purposes & the remaining incurred an annual income of Rs 8000/- p.a.  He also cultivated paddy 2 times in a year (zaid crop: feb – may & kharif crop: june-sept) which generated an income of Rs 30000-40000/- p.a. after consumption.
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  ANNUALINCOMEOF TIMAMINIAKAIN2004 SL NOCROPS CULTIVATED NET ANNUAL INCOME(rs) 1 Eucalyptus 47000(avg/yr) 2 Ragi 2000 3 suam 6000 4 Paddy 40000 Total 95000
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  AGROFORESTRY PROMOTION TRAINING9
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  AGROFORESTRY PRACTICE ADOPTION In2005, he started planting Tectona grandis (80 trees) & Gmelina arborea (50 trees) in addition to eucalyptus sp (2000 trees) in his farm at a spacing of 5m x5m in scattered form. The intercropped species in between the trees were turmeric, banana, pineapple and some vegetables like brinjal, tomato, beans & chilli planted in different blocks. In 2015, influenced by his increase in income, he initiated agroforestry in his backyard land (Badi) with banana plantation intercropped with arhar crop. He also started cultivating lemon grass in between teak trees.
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  SL NO TREESPECIES INTERCROPPED SPECIES I Tectona grandis Turmeric II Tectona grandis Pineapple III Tectona grandis Lemongrass IV eucalyptus sp Banana, Vegetables INTERCROPPING PATTERNS OF DIFFERENT CROPS IN TIMA‘S FARM
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   Currently timahas a improved wadi system in his field.  He has a link with small cottage industries where he sells the eucalyptus leaves & lemon grass to extract oil for making mosquito repellant inscense sticks  He also harvested 6 years eucalyptus coppice wood of 30-40 tonnes & sells to paper & pulp industry  He has electrified his field & had set up well irrigation facilities from his 1st income from wadi.  No income is generated from banana as it is a current year plantation.
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  ANNUAL INCOMEOF TIMAMINIYAKAIN2015 (fromAGROFORESTRY):- SL NO CROPS AVG ANNUAL INCOME (in rs) 1 Eucalyptus coppice wood 76000 2 Eucalyptus leaves 15000 3 Lemon grass 10000 5 Turmeric 6000 6 Pineapple 2000 7 Tomato 3000 8 Brinjal 2000 9 Beans 4000 10 Chilli 5000 TOTAL 122500
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  ANNUAL INCOME FROMOTHER CROPS IN 2015:- SL NO CROPS CULTIVATED INCOME 1 Paddy (twice/yr) 60000 2 Ragi 1000 3 suam 4000 TOTAL 65000 Therefore his total income from all sources becomes approximately Rs 186500 in 2015.