JPSC CS Paper-VI - Group C - Agricultural Science Concept of Agro-forestry; westland and means to reclaim them. Agroforestry Agroforestry is a collective name for land-use systems involving trees combined with crops and/or animals on the same unit of land. It combines - Production of multiple outputs with protection of the resource base; Places emphasis on the use of multiple indigenous trees and shrubs; Particularly suitable for low-input conditions and fragile environments; It involves the interplay of socio-cultural values more than in most other land-use systems; and It is structurally and functionally more complex than monoculture. Benefits of Agroforestry Environment Benefits: Combining trees with food crops on cropland farms yield certain important environment benefits, both general ecological benefits and specific o...