Abstract
The study was designed to determine what model(s) is (are) practiced, to determine the tree species preferred by people for agroforestry, to identify the problems being encountered by farmers. The study revealed that, adaptation of Agroforestry practice in Tsafe Local Government is up to 88.75% and only11.25% are not into the system. Also by looking into the determined rate of Agroforestry model in the study area, Agrosilvicultural is highest Agroforestry model system which constituted 76.8%, silvopastoral system (4.9%), Agrosilvopastoral system (16.2%) and others have the minimum of 2.1%. 64.8% of respondents intercropped their arable crops with fruit bearing tree. Maize and rice are the major food crops grown in the study area. The study area is faced with inadequate funds (31.0%), poor government intervention (38.0%) and lack of awareness and education (20.4%). An agroforestry system can be considered as a type of land use that is specific to a locality and described according to its biological composition and arrangement, level of technical management as social-economic features. It is recommended that government should provide Agroforestry regulatory policies, means of enlightenments, incentives and supports to improve the practice.
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