Agroforestry Model Serve as Tools for Improvement in Soil Quality

Author: N.K. Kushwaha, Vinit Kumar, B.S. Rajawat and Vivek Tiwari

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Abstract

Tree in agroecosystems present in various combinations and they may support variety of biological diversity in the ecosystem. More the diversity results various set of competition creating varieties of products developed due to the interaction dynamics and resulting the current quality of soil physico-chemical status. Present paper deals with soil analysis of agroforestry and non-agroforestry cropland soil sample were collected from 21 villages randomly from Karera block of Shivpuri district by doing comparative study. Hypothesis of the study (HO = Two given independent population means are same Vs H1 = Two population means are not same (Alternate hypothesis postulated that in the presence of any factor there may be the impact of population gives differences in that population which is not affected by any factors). In view of statistical Data analysis at α=0.05 level of significance the calculated value of student’s t- test were found 6.4489, 27.347 & 13.72505 for N content, OC % a

Keywords

Karera, C:N ratio, Agroforestry cropland, soil data analysis, student’s t-test.

Conclusion

In view of statistical Data analysis at α = 0.05 level of significance the calculated value of student’s t- test were found 6.4489, 27.347 & 13.72505 for N content, OC % and C:N ration respectively which are at par from t-test table value (α = 0.05 and 20 d.f.) was 2.086 which concluded that the significance changes has been observed in soil quality due to the agroforestry model at karera block of Shivpuri district. Based on data analysis result, it is cleared that agroforestry model having significant positive impact on the soil quality and hence, it is clearly indicating that, agroforestry model used as an improvement tools by applying different tree varieties over bund plantation around the cropland.

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Kushwaha, N.K., Kumar, Vinit, Rajawat, B.S. and Tiwari, Vivek (2021). Agroforestry Model Serve as Tools for Improvement in Soil Quality. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(1): 98-105.