-Agroforestry is suitable for developing countries where modern agriculture has been least successful.
-Agro-forestry enables a farmers to enjoy a multiplicity of products from the farm.
-Agro-forestry leads to increased food supply and income to farmers in addition to providing environmental services that contribute to environmental stability.
-Agro-forestry is a low input approach to agriculture. Soil N can easily be restored by use of N fixing trees hence reducing production cost.
-Adding trees to a farming system is a way of trying to copy nature. As such, a farmer makes advantage of the good attributes associated with natural environment.
-Agro-forestry systems are good in carbon sequestration and hence useful in slowing down global warming.
-An agro-forestry system is more diversified in terms of production as opposed to mono cropping.
-Agroforestry has not been adopted widely despite its many benefits. It does not allow mechanization and everything has to be done by hand. It is hence labor intensive.
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