Survey and documentation of different agroforestry systems in the farmers field of Siddapur taluk of Uttara Kannada district

Abstract

The field experiment on Survey and Documentation of different Agroforestry Systems followed by Farmers in Siddapur Taluk of Uttara kannada District” was carried out during the year 2025-26. The results revealed that (41.1%) of the farmers below above income category, followed by at medium income (35.55%) category group. only 23.3% of the farmers are were belong to low income category group. The land holding of the farmer's in siddapur, and It shows that (37.77%) of farmers belong to big land holding category, followed by medium (31.11%), small (21.11%) and only 10% of the farmer's hold marginal land area. The literacy level of the farmer in Siddapur region (31%) percent of the farmers studied sslc and only 9 percent of the farmers are illiterate. Among all the different agroforestry systems, 23 percent of farmers adopted bund planting in Horti-silvi-agriculture system, followed by boundary planting (10%) in Horti-silvi-agriculture system and (10%) in bund planting of Agri-silviculture. Tectona grandis (Teak) is one of the dominant species because of the wider adoptability followed by Casuarina which were generally adopted the farmers of the study area. The 60 percent of the farmer's prefers Tectona grandis because of adoptability followed by Casurina equisitifolia (26.66%). Farmers of this region shows less (4%) to introduce Acacia sps on their farmland.