Contents: Foreword/J.S. Samra. Message/S.K. Dhyani. Preface. I. Agroforestry in India: 1. How can we promote sustainability and development of agricultural lands through agroforestry practices: some experiences from India/Sunil Puri and Pankaj Panwar. 2. Agroforestry research and extension efforts at national level/Pankaj Panwar. II. Agroforestry: systems and practices in North, West and Central India: 3. An overview of agroforestry in Kashmir Valley/A.H. Mughal and M.A. Khan. 4. Agroforestry for sustainable development of agriculture in North Western Himalayas with reference to Jammu region/M. Saleem and L.M. Gupta. 5. Agroforestry systems in Himachal Pradesh/K.S. Verma and D.R. Bhardwaj. 6. Agroforestry in Uttaranchal/Salil Tewari, Rajesh Kaushal and R. Purohit. 7. Promising Agroforestry practices in Punjab/H.S. Saralch, Baljit Singh and S.K. Chauhan. 8. Agroforestry systems and practices in Haryana/D.P.S. Nandal and K.S. Bangarwa. 9. Agroforestry practices and systems in North Gujarat/S.N. Jamini and S.B.S. Tikka. 10. Agroforestry systems in Arid Region (Rajasthan) of India/L.N. Harsh and J.C. Tewari. 11. Status and scope of Agroforestry development in Eastern Part of Uttar Pradesh/B.S. Rana, A.K. Saxena and A.K.S. Parihar. 12. Agroforestry in Eastern Uttar Pradesh/S.B. Lal. 13. Agroforestry systems and practices in Chhattisgarh/Sunil Puri. 14. Agroforestry systems in Madhya Pradesh--potentialities, possibilities and opportunities/S.D. Upadhyaya and Aashutosh Sharma. 15. Agroforestry system in Maharashtra/V.M. Ilorkar. III. Agroforestry: Systems and practices in East North-East and Southern India: 16. Agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in Bihar/O.P. Chaturvedi and D.K. Das. 17. Agroforestry systems and practices in Jharkhand/M.S. Yadava and S.M. Sulaiman Quli. 18. Agroforestry systems and practices in West Bengal/Pankaj Panwar. 19. Agroforestry systems and practices in Orissa/A.K. Mohapatra, N. Bhola and R.K. Patnaik. 20. Agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in Assam/A.A. Ahmed and D.N. Hazarika. 21. Agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in Meghalaya/J.M.S. Tomar, K. Upadhaya, O.P. Tripathi and H.N. Pandey. 22. Agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in Mizoram/U.K. Sahoo. 23. Agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in Arunachal Pradesh, their constraints and potentials/Kamal Kishor Sood, P. Handique and B. Singh. 24. Traditional homegardens in the humid tropics of North-East India/S. Deb, A. Arunachalam, K. Arunachalam and S. Tangjang. 25. Structure and function of homegardens of Andaman and Nicobar, India/C.B. Pandey and R.B. Rai. 26. Agroforestry systems and practices adopted in Andhra Pradesh/B. Sreemannarayana, B. Joseph and L.G. Giri Rao. 27. Agroforestry systems of Karnataka: an overview/B.N. Satish and C.G. Kushalappa. 28. Agroforestry systems and practices of Kerala/B. Mohan Kumar. 29. Agroforestry systems and practices in Tamil Nadu/M. Paramatama, R. Jude Sudhagar and P. Rathakrishnan. IV. Allied topics related to agroforestry: 30. Agroforestry Modelling/Ajit, A.K. Handa and Uma. 31. Potential of medicinal and aromatic plants in Agroforestry systems/L.M. Gupta, M. Saleem, S.K. Gupta and Meenakshi Gupta. 32. Canopy management in Agroforestry -- options and strategies/P.S. Thakur and Anju Thakur. 33. Rural women in Agroforestry in North Western Himalayas/Vidya Thakur. 34. Bamboo based Agroforestry systems in India and their future potential/D.R. Bhardwaj. 35. Potential and strategies of Agroforestry interventions for rehabilitation of minespoil wastelands of Uttaranchal Himalaya/K.S. Dadhwal. 36. Tree breeding status and strategy for Agroforestry species in India/V.K. Gupta, R.V. Kumar and S.P. Ahlawat. 37. Agroforestry for sustainability: soil and water conservation strategy/Satyananda Patra and Calvin Fox. Index.

"Agroforestry is an age old practice throughout the world, but its recognition as a science is nearly three decades old. The scientific and systematic research on tree-crop interactions, in India, started in late 1970's and got major support and impetus with the establishment of All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Agroforestry by 1983 by ICAR. Today AICRP on Agroforestry has its network throughout the country. Under AICRP and through the individual efforts of State Agricultural Universities, location specific agroforestry systems has been recommended to suit agroclimatic zones, landholdings and economic status of the region.

Though extensive research had been done till date, but it is not available to scientific world, farming communities (who are the backbone of Indian rural development), students and inquisitive readers in one manuscript. This prompted the authors to club the information on agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in India in the form of book. For the sake of convenience, agroforestry systems prevailing in India have been divided into four broad sections (i) Agroforestry in India (ii) Agroforestry system and practices in North, West and Central India (iii) Agroforestry systems and practices in East, North-East and Southern India (iv) Allied topics related to agroforestry. Section one cover topics covering agroforestry experiences, research and extension efforts done in the last 25 years in India. Section two includes 13 chapters and section three covers 14 chapters wherein agroforestry research vis-a-vis agroclimatic zones of different states of India have been discussed. The last section comprising of 8 chapters includes topics related to role of agroforestry in soil conservation, women development, management of agroforestry, modeling, rehabilitation of mine spoils and breeding of agroforestry tree species."