Agroforestry and Rain water

Harvesting
Rukhmina, Nadira, Faheem, Adnan
Agroforestry
Advantages:
 Deep roots:
 Increase infiltration – reduces water logging and surface runoff
 Prevents leakage of fertilizers and manure into the groundwater – cleaner waterbed
 Reduces salinity – converts inarable land into fertile land
 Canopy:
 Windbreaker
 Creates microclimate
 Reduces splash erosion
 Biodiversity:
 Habitat to pollinators
 Encourages biological pest control
 Provides fodder for livestock, timber and fuel
 Food security – poverty reduction
Disadvantages:

 Slow rate of income return

 Labor intensive
 Competition for resources.
 Tree if tall can block sunlight
 Allelopathy
Rainwater Harvesting:
Advantages:

 Promotes both water and energy conservation.

 Does not require a filtration system for landscape irrigation.
 It reduces soil erosion, stormwater runoff, flooding, and pollution of surface
water with fertilizers, pesticides, metals and other sediments.
 It is an excellent source of water for landscape irrigation with no chemicals and
dissolved salts and free from all minerals.
 Less cost.
Disadvantages:

 Limited and no rainfall can limit the supply of Rainwater.

 Regular maintenance is required.
 Storage limits.