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Cultivating trees and agrarian crops in intimate combination with one another is an ancient practice that growers have used throughout the world. In Europe, till the Middle Periods, it was a great general custom to clear- fell demoralised timber, burn the rent, cultivate food crops for varying ages on the cleared area, and plant or sow trees ahead, along with, or after sowing agrarian crops.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on 7th March 2021 inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Silk Board under the Ministry of Fabrics on a confluence model for the perpetration of Agroforestry in the silk sector under the ongoing Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) Scheme.
About Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF)
The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare (DAC & FW) has been enforcing the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) since 2016-17 as part of the recommendation of the National Agroforestry Policy 2014. At present, the scheme is being enforced in 20 Countries and 2 UTs.
Aim of SMAF Scheme SMAF aims to encourage growers to plant multi-purpose trees together with the husbandry crops for climate adaptability and an fresh source of income to the growers, as well as enhanced feedstock to inter alia wood- grounded and herbal assiduity.
There’s a combined trouble to include medicinal, fruits, fodder, tree- borne oilseeds, lac hostetc. in addition to the longer gyration timber species.
SMAF Scheme and Sericulture
Benefits to Farmers Planting sericulture grounded tree species on the ranch bunds and rearing silkworms has the eventuality of creating fresh income openings for growers besides their regular source of income from husbandry conditioning.
Memorandum of Understanding
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare moment inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Silk Board under the Ministry of Fabrics on a confluence model for the perpetration of Agroforestry in the silk sector under the ongoing Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) Scheme.
The MoU was inked by Dr. Alka Bhargava, Fresh Secretary, DAC&FW and Shri Rajit Ranjan Okhandiar, Member Secretary (Central Silk Board), Ministry of Fabrics in the presence of Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam Rupala and Union Minister for Fabrics Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani and other dignitaries.
The signing of this MoU aims to incentivize the growers to take up sericulture grounded Agroforestry models thereby contributing to the Make in India and Make for the World vision of the Prime Minister.
The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare (DAC & FW) has been enforcing the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) since 2016-17 as part of the recommendation of the National Agroforestry Policy 2014. At present, the scheme is being enforced in 20 Countries and 2 UTs.
SMAF aims to encourage growers to plant multi-purpose trees together with the husbandry crops for climate adaptability and a fresh source of income to the growers, as well as enhanced feedstock to inter alia wood- grounded and herbal assiduity. The action of formalising the collaboration in the sericulture sector is especially targeted for addition of sericulture host to be cultivated both as block colonies and border or supplemental colonies on spreads. Planting sericulture grounded tree species on the ranch bunds and rearing silkworms has the eventuality of creating fresh income openings for growers besides their regular source of income from husbandry conditioning.
Conclusion
Trees play an important part in the ecosystem in all terrestrials and give a range of products and services to pastoral and civic people. As natural foliage is cut for husbandry and other types of development, the benefits that trees give are stylishly sustained by integrating trees into the agrarian system-a practice known as agroforestry.
Growers have rehearsed agroforestry since ancient times. Agroforestry focuses on the wide range of trees grown on granges and other pastoral areas. Agroforestry is a collaborative name for land- use systems involving trees combined with crops and/ or creatures on the same unit of land.
