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Advantages of the practise: |
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Advantages of the practise:
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- Trees protect crops from excessive sunlight.
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Trees conserve productive top soil and moisture for crops.
- Nitrogen fixing trees provide nitrogen to agricultural crops (therefore there will be less requirement of nitrogenous fertilizers like urea) and a symbiotic relationship is maintained between them.
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Trees add humus to soil as their leaves fall and gradually decompose, thus adding nutrition to the top soil.
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Trees protect agricultural crops from excessive rain, storm and wind.
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Trees provide and stabilise optimal diurnal temperature in the field as they trap heat from the sunlight.
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Trees prevent crops from frost bite.
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Trees, besides providing fruits to the farmer also provide fuel, wood and fodder.
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Agricultural crops protect trees from weeds or minimise their competition with weeds.
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Leguminous crops provide green manure to non-nitrogenous fixing trees.
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