Taungya Farming-a Strategy for Sustainable Land Management and Agricultural Development in Nigeria (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

In Nigeria, land degradation in the form of erosion oriented, soil physical property deterioration, vegetation degradation and hydrological changes are remotely caused by man's inefficient usage of land and its resources. Other causes are inadequate on-farm conservation and shortened bush fallow with inadequate supply of farmyard manure. The consequences of the inefficient land usage are decrease in land productivity and production and the inability of the agricultural sector to produce adequate food to feed the ever growing population. To avert the dire consequences of land degradation, some sustainable land management practices (such as taungya farming) which allow the production of increased agricultural and forest products simultaneously on the same unit of land are being canvassed. Taungya farming is a system of raising forest plantation along with crop husbandry in which the clearing of the site, planting and tendering of the trees are done wholly or in part by the farmers...

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