Abstract
Economics helps us to ensure the implication of agroforestry adoption. This study was done to analyze and compare the economics of Poplar-fodder crop-based agroforestry under boundary and block plantation patterns being adopted by the rural farmers in Haridwar district in Uttarakhand, North India. It also checks the economic profitability in terms of BCR, NPV, and IRR. Values of discounted costs and benefits were generated at 10 percent rate of interest for a period of six years on all costs applied and benefits obtained from these two models. The cost-benefit analysis was done to the values in which Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR), Net Present Value and (NPV) Internal Rate of Return (IRR) were accounted in detail. Result has confirmed a BCR, NPV and IRR as 2.94: 1, 2.84 Lakh/ha and 40.55% for Poplar-Berseem fodder (Trifolium spp.)-Chari fodder (Sorghum spp.) under boundary plantation and 2.62: 1, 2.63 Lakh/ha and 22.43% for Poplar-Berseem fodder (Trifolium spp.)-Chari fodder (Sorghum spp.) under block plantation. It has been concluded from the study that cultivation of Berseem and Chari fodder crops with Poplar is more profitable under boundary plantation than that of block plantation under agroforestry systems in India.
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