Productivity and employment generation through guava based agroforestry system in gangetic area of U.P.

摘要

This study was conducted to determine the productivity and employment opportunities generated by guava based agroforestry system in Gangetic area of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was found that although pure guava cultivation was an old concept, utilization of its interspace with traditional cropping system was profitable in Gangetic region of Uttar Pradesh. The farm families of Mainpuri, Etah, Budaun, Hardoi, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Unnao, Kanpur Nagar, Lucknow, Sitapur and Allahabad adopted the cultivation of wheat, potato, vegetable pea, cucurbits, onion, summer moong, summer urd, okra, sweet potato and barley as parallel crops in association of guava plantation. At the initial stage, guava fruits was 150-250 q/ha while, wheat, potato, vegetable pea, cucurbits, onion, summer urd/moong, okra, sweet potato and barley yielded 30, 220, 95, 180, 235, 6, 80, 190 and 32 q/ha, respectively, with protective irrigation. The system generated 190 human labour man days/ha/year as a rural employment over 70 human labour man days/ha/year propagated from monocropping of guava.