ABSTRACT
By combining agriculture and forestry production, various functions and objectives of forest and food crop production can be better achieved. The socioeconomic scale of production and level of management of the systems can be used as the criteria to designate systems as commercial, intermediate, or subsistence. The main goal of designing an agroforestry system is to enhance the fundamental ecological features of the forest, so an understanding of these processes in a natural system is essential. Agroforestry system provides favourable conditions for soil macro-organisms and micro-organisms, when planted along the contours of sloping land to provide a barrier for soil erosion control. A number of factors should be considered in arranging component plant species in space and time. Plant arrangement patterns are site specific. In areas with complex clan or communal land systems, developing agroforestry systems may be difficult.
