Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon in Tropical Agroforests in the Churiya Range of Makawanpur, Nepal

Table 1

Characteristics of agroforestry systems in the study area.

Agroforestry system	Arrangement of components	Species
(1) Agrisilviculture (crops and trees including shrubs)
	Cereal crops and lentils grown on terraced rainfed cultivated land (bari) under widely spaced naturallygrowing fodder tree species	Cereal crops: Zea mays, Triticum aestivum, and Panicum miliaceum; Trees: Dalbergia sissoo, Artocarpus lakoocha, and Bombax ceiba
(2) Home garden (cereal crops, trees, fruits, house, and domestic animals)
	Multipurpose trees, fodder trees, fruit trees, nontimber forest products	Tree species: Ficus semicordata, Melia azedarach, Bauhinia purpurea, and Artocarpus lakoocha; Fruit species: Citrus limon, Musa paradisiaca, Ananas comosus, Carica papaya, and Mangifera indica; Nontimber forest products: Curcuma domestica and Zingiber officinale
(3) Silvopasture (pasture/animals and trees)
Fodder trees: forage grasses and animals	Forage grasses grown on terraced bari under naturally growing fodder trees; goat, cow, and buffalo in cut and carry system	Trees/fodder species: Garuga pinnata, Schima wallichii, Madhuca indica, Bombax ceiba, Ficus hispida, Leucaena leucocephala, and Bauhinia purpurea; Grasses: Thysanolaena maxima, Saccharum spontaneum, and Eulaliopsis binate