AUTHOR=Saleem Ishrat , Mugloo J. A. , Pala Nazir A. , Bhat G. M. , Masoodi T. H. , Mughal A. H. , Baba Afshan A. , Mehraj Basira 

TITLE=Biomass production, carbon stock and sequestration potential of prominent agroforestry systems in north-western Himalaya, India

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1192382

DOI=10.3389/ffgc.2023.1192382

ISSN=2624-893X

ABSTRACT=Agroforestry is an age-old practice of integrating farming with practices, preferably on the same unit of land on sustainable basis. There is tremendous scope for Agroforestry because India has achieved self-sufficiency in food production. Now its attention is becoming more focused on the ecological problems and shortage of fuel, fodder and other outputs as well as unemployment. So, agroforestry land use systems offer a better option by serving as carbon sinks and contributing in attaining food safety, subsistence income, and habitat amelioration. The current study was conducted in this context in the south Kashmir area of India with the objectiveof recognising the capability of various agroforestry systems for biomass estimation and carbon sequestration assessment for mitigating climate variation. The present study entitled "Biomass production, carbon stock and sequestration potential of prominent agroforestry systems in Northwestern Himalaya, India" was carried out, during 2018-2019. The study site is located between 33° 72'N and 75° 14'E at an altitude ranging from 2900-5900 meters (amsl). Multistage random sampling technique was used for selection of sampled tehsils, blocks, villages and farmers in Anatnag district. The first stage was the random sampling of six tehsils namely Anantnag,