Socio-economic study of poplar (Populus deltoides) based agroforestry model in Vaishali district of Bihar

Abstract

A questionnaire survey was conducted during April- May 2016 on poplar based agroforestry model in Vaishali district of Bihar for analysis of its acceptability, profitability, and constraints prominent for the popular beyond its favourable condition. Result released that the growth of popular not much affected but on comparison of production and income obtained from with and without cultivation of poplar trees, with crops shows slightly decrease in production of crops but overall income of farmer’s increases due to addition of poplar selling price. The yield of potato and onion found better as compared to the other crops while the yield of maize was lower with Poplar. Based on the respondent opinion, 46.14% of the respondents believe that trees reduce yield of agriculture crop. Other reasons behind less popularity of agroforestry include lack of market (38.57%), small land holding (31.71%), lack of awareness (25.71%), late returns (26.57%) and restrictions on felling and transport of trees (8.85%).