Agro-Forestry Policy Highlights
* Inclusion of trees in farming systems and their management in rural landscapes to enhance productivity, profitability, diversity and ecosystem sustainability
* Enhance ecosystems through carbon storage, mitigate climate change effects, prevent deforestation, improve biodiversity, provide cleaner water and reduce land erosion
* Maintenance of green cover on farmlands throughout the year
* Significant potential to provide employment to rural and urban population through production, industrial application and value addition ventures. Current estimates show about 64% of country's timber requirement is met from trees grown on farms
* Augmenting energy capacity through biomass, biodiesel, ethanol, bio-char and biogas production. Bio-fuel generation in degraded and marginal lands is being taken up on an experimental basis
* Only alternative to meet target of increasing forest cover to 33% from present level of 20%
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