Farm-forestry: a farming systems approach (a case study of Chitwan district in Nepal)

A case study of a 3-year farm forestry project was conducted in Chitwan, Nepal during the winter of 1983. Farm forestry was conceived as one of the structural variables in the Nepalese farming system. Data were collected by administering personal interviews to a group of randomly sampled heads of households of four villages of Khaivini Panchayat. Findings revealed that there was a great pressure from both the human and livestock population on cultivated land for food and fuel. The role of livestock in supplementing farm income was great. Fuel and fodder needs ranked as the most important felt needs of the farmers, which clearly indicated a great potential for the extension of farm forestry programmes on a much wider scale.