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Fruit Tree Based Agroforestry Systems: A Way Forward for Nutritional Security?
World Congress on Agroforestry (2014)
  • Sridhar Gutam, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture
Abstract
Today about 870 million people go hungry, every day around the world and the projections shows that the population would cross nine billion populations by 2050. For this burgeoning population, we need to produce enough affordable, quality food having rich energy and nutrition. When compared to all the interventions to meet the food and nutritional security, the horticulture sector especially the fruits having enormous possibility. The fruits with all the available minerals and vitamins are the potential candidates for achieving nutritional security. Therefore, sensitization of farmers about the potential benefits of the fruit trees is very much essential and also they need to be encouraged to practice fruit tree based system. If the research community develops suitable technologies, then the fruit trees can grow in almost all the farming systems.
Keywords
  • Trees,
  • Nutrition
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 28, 2014
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Sridhar Gutam. "Fruit Tree Based Agroforestry Systems: A Way Forward for Nutritional Security?" World Congress on Agroforestry (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/46/
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