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The document provides an introduction to planning for agroforestry. It discusses why planning is important for agroforestry practices to succeed. The key steps in developing an agroforestry plan are outlined, including assessing objectives, resources, climate/soil conditions, current land use, available land, and market conditions. Land use planning principles are also introduced, along with different levels of land use planning. Land capability classification and land suitability classification systems are briefly described to classify lands based on their ability to support agriculture.

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AF 107-Module

The document provides an introduction to planning for agroforestry. It discusses why planning is important for agroforestry practices to succeed. The key steps in developing an agroforestry plan are outlined, including assessing objectives, resources, climate/soil conditions, current land use, available land, and market conditions. Land use planning principles are also introduced, along with different levels of land use planning. Land capability classification and land suitability classification systems are briefly described to classify lands based on their ability to support agriculture.

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Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College

Bachelor of Science in Agroforestry

AGROFORESTRY PRODUCTION
AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(AF 107)

For. Jelyn A. Felicitas


Introduction to Planning for
Agroforestry
Introduction to Planning for Agroforestry
• Developing a plan may seem tedious at the beginning, but the long term benefits
far outweigh the difficulties of plan creation.

• By having a plan, landowners can better envision how to successfully integrate an


Agroforestry Practice to their farm.

• The planning process will also help develop a familiarity with the management that
is required in order to reach the goals, objectives, benefits and economics that are
desired.

• The best way to ensure success is by thoughtful and honest planning.


Why plan?
The development of a plan for integrating agroforestry practices to the farm
system is as important as the actual establishment of the practice itself.

✓ Planning -- and the development of a timeline -- will help maximize the


chances for the success of the agroforestry practice.
✓ Planning will not only assist in understanding how the practice and its
placement on the landscape can accomplish specific on farm goals, but will
provide assistance in identifying market opportunities for products that may
be grown in the practice.

REMEMBER: Diagnosis precedes treatment.


Steps in creating a plan for Agroforestry Development Areas

• Your objectives and priorities


• Personal resources (e.g., labor, equipment,buildings, animals, plants)
• Climate, soil conditions and physical features
• Current land use
• Land available to practice agroforestry
• A non-timber plant inventory (for woodland only)
• Market conditions for potential products
Steps in Developing an
Agroforestry Plan
Steps in Developing an Agroforestry Plan
LAND USE PLANNING
What is Land Use Planning?
LUP is the systematic assessment of physical, social and economic
factors in such a way as to encourage and assist land users in selecting
land use options that :
1. Is an interactive and continuous process of development ;
2. Requires flexibility
3. Does not have a clear end-product;
4. Is problem oriented;
5. Is area specific;
6. Involves all stakeholders
Land Use Planning Principles

1. Appropriateness to local context


2. Flexibility
3. Transparency,
4. Participative approach
5. Gender specific and
6. Inter-disciplinary
Why Land Use Planning for Agroforestry
Systems Management?

To achieve a sustainable, environmentally sound,


socially desirable and economically appropriate form
of land use.
Different Perceptions about Land Use Planning

Land use planning is not just crop/farm planning on a different scale,


but it has a further dimension, namely, the interest of the whole
community. LUP means different thing to different people:

• For researchers - it is the systematic assessment of land and water


potential for alternative land use under existing economic and social
conditions in order to select and adopt the best options.
• For small farmers - The effective utilization of land and water
resources for crop production in order to minimize crop failures
and risks and to sustain family needs. To market driven
mismatching land suitabilities. The farmers expect family
sufficiency and profit with or without sustained use of natural
resources.

• For Large Farmers - An effective utilization of resources to


maximize profit from the whole farm, based on principle of
comparative advantage
Levels of Land Use Planning

• National
• State
• District
• Microlevel: Village / watershed
Integration of LUP with Agroforestry Systems
Management (AFSM):
Traditionally, developmental programmes were imposed in a top –
down approach. This approach has been attempted at state,
district and village level.

Data requirements would vary from broad physical resources at


state level to more detailed agro climatic, social and economic
resources at village level. Hence, the needs and constraints of the
farming community are expected meet.
Building bridges for LUP for AFSM
Between disciplines in the study of integral land use systems, where
much is expected of the new tools of systems of engineering and
Information Technology, Remote Sensing and Geographical
Information System(GIS).

Between the different stakeholders influencing Land Use Planning


decisions for Farming Systems Management. Building bridges
between the Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge as
practical land use planning models for Farming Systems
Management.
Tools for LUP for AFSM :

• Resource Survey: Resource identification;


• Remote Sensing: Land use, Land cover
• Land Evaluation: Resource based interpretation;
• GIS : Documentation -Integration - Retrieval
• Modelling : Forecasting.
Land Capability Classification
Land Capability Classification
• It is an interpretative groupings of soils based on inherent soil characteristics,
land features and environmental factors that limit land use or impose risk of
erosion.
• Soils are grouped in 8 capability classes on the basis of their ability to produce
commonly cultivated crops. The risk of soil damage progressively increases from
Class I to Class VIII.

• Arable lands are put in Class I to IV and the non arable in Class V to VIII. There
is a provision to assign subclass on the basis of kind of predominant hazard,
limitation or conservation problem.
• A sub-class may be further divided into capability units according to similarity in
potential and response to management. While land capability classification system
is useful for relatively broad level planning it needs to be supplemented by more
precise evaluation for micro level planning.
• Further, the land capability classification is conservation oriented
which considers the negative aspects.

• Yet this system is still widely used because Of its simplicity and
ease of comprehension. The capability classification gives general
idea about the Capability of the soils but does not explain specific
crop performance unless supplemented by additional information.

• This method could be followed effectively for highlighting the


conservation oriented limitations which need immediate attention
and for broad grouping of soils into agricultural and non-
agricultural lands.
Classes
• Groups of land units that have the same degree of limitation.
• The risk of soil damage or limitation becomes progressively
greater from Class I to Class VIII.
• The classes show the general suitability of a land unit for
agricultural use.

I to IV - Arable ; V to VIII - Non-arable


Sub-classes:

These are based on major conservation problems such as a:

e - erosion and run off;


w - excess water;
s - root zone limitation - climatic limitations
Capability unit
Grouping of one or more individual soil mapping units
having similar potentials and limitations or hazards

(a) Produce similar crops - under similar management.


(b) Require soil conservation or management.
(c) Have comparable potential productivity.
Land Suitability Classification
• Land suitability classification refers to the fitness of a given type of
land for a defined use. Suitability classification is arrived at on the
basis of soil survey information, economic and social analysis, kinds
of land use and the need for change.
• Separate c1assification are made with respect to each kind of land
use that appears to be relevant for the area
• The categories recognized in land suitability classification are order,
classes, sub-classes and unit.
Thank You!

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