The framework for classification of Agroforestry System and practices are:

Related Mcqs:

1. The major categories of agroforestry are:

   A. Agrisilvicultural
   B. Silvopastoral
   C. Agrosilvopastoral
   D. All of the above

2. Additionally, there are attributes, which, theoretically, all agroforestry system possess are:

   A. Productivity
   B. Sustainability
   C. Adoptability
   D. All of the above

3. Agroforestry systems can be categorized to sets of criteria:

   A. Structural basis
   B. Functional basis
   C. Socio-economic basis
   D. Ecological basis
   E. All of the above

4. Agroforestry the definition implies that:

   A. Agroforestry normally involves two or more species of plants at least one of which is a woody perennial
   B. An agroforestry system always has two or more outputs
   C. The cycle of an agroforestry system is always more than one year
   D. All of the above

5. The history of Agroforestry is:

   A. Cultivating trees and agricultural crops in intimate combination with one another is an ancient practice that farmers have used throughout the world
   B. Until the Middle Ages, it was the general custom to clear-fell degraded forest, burn the slash, cultivate food crops for varying periods on the cleared areas
   C. Plant or sow trees before, along with
   D. After sowing agriculture crops
   E. All of the above

6. Common combinations of the agroforestry system in Pakistan are: Trees species: Agricultural crops grown with trees:

   A. Poplars: wheat / maize / turmeric / sugarcane / vegetables / fodder
   B. Eucalypts: wheat/sunflower/tomatoes/potatoes/chilies
   C. Simal: maize/sunflower/vegetables/fodder
   D. Shisham: turmeric/wheat/maize/vegetables
   E. All of the above

7. The principal of positive economic features and the underlying hypotheses about agroforestry are:

   A. Maintains or increases site productivity through nutrient recycling and soil protection, at low capital and labour costs
   B. Increase the value of output on a given area of land through spatial or inter temporal intercropping of tree and other species
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

8. The main economic constraints of agroforestry are:

   A. Reduces output of staple food cross, where trees compete for use of arable land and or depress crop yields.
   B. In compatibility of trees with agricultural practices such as free grazing, burning, common fields
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

9. Constraints with respect of agroforestry:

   A. There are several problems that hinder the acceptance of agroforestry concepts
   B. And their use as tools in rural development
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

10. A need for agroforestry system will exist whenever the situations occur:

    A. Tree might lessen the risk of hardship because of crop failure and whenever trees will allow farmers to accumulate capital or cash
    B. Trees will help to spread production activities throughout the year, by staggering the harvests, providing products in dry seasons, or spreading the labour load
    C. Both (a) & (b)
    D. None of these