**7.1 Oak high-density plantation**

The experiments were conducted on high-density plantation of oak (*Quercus leucotrichophora*) for proper management of tree canopy with four lopping techniques. The lopping techniques included: pollarding at 1 and 2 meters (backwards cutting of the tree trunk so that the dense numbers of branches can be generated); Local practices (slightly above from where the branches split leaves and tender twigs removed in random manner); without disturbing the upper 1/3 part of the tree lower 2/3 part pruned for fodder leaves (lopping) (**Table 6**). It was found that at the age of 30 years oak tree can store 86.7 to 356.9 Mg ha�<sup>1</sup> carbon stock, 317.2 to 1306.5 Mg ha�<sup>1</sup> biomass carbon dioxide and carbon sequestration in the range of 2.9 to 11.9 per Mg per hectare per year were found in various cutting management [16]. **7.3 Agrihorticulture**

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94076*

**Figure 2.**

**7.4 Silvipasture**

*Source: [11].*

**Table 7.**

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Pecan nut *(Carya illinoinensis*) based agrihorticulture system in which pecan nut + lentil, pecan nut + wheat, lentil and wheat were grown (**Table 7**). Carbon stock of 23.9 and 25.3 Mg ha<sup>1</sup> with lentil and wheat and biomass carbon dioxide 92.85 and 87.78 Mg ha<sup>1</sup> with wheat and lentil was recorded, respectively [11]. In peach (*Prunus persica*) biomass C stock was recorded 19.4 Mg/ha under agrihorti system. Therefore, in the context of climate change and to meet the need of rapidly growing population agroforestry is very important. Agroforestry is very essential for pollution free atmosphere and for feed as well as fuel, timber and the unem-

*Aboveground carbon stocks, carbon sequestration and biomass CO2 in fruit tree based land use systems [8].*

*Climatic Variation and Its Impacts on Yield and Water Requirement of Crops in Indian Central…*

In Silvipastoral system among trees oak (*Quercus lecotrichophora*) stored signifi-

cantly high carbon (24.85 t/ha) as compared to rest trees (**Figure 3**). Whereas, among cutting management pollarding at 3 m height stored highest carbon stock

Carbon stock was measured in linear strip plantation of Kachnar (*Bauhinia retusa*). In Kachnar terrace plantation highest @ 3.17 0.88 t/1000 m length, carbon was stored in lopping of lower ½ (half) part and keeping top ½ parts undisturbed of the trees (**Figure 4**). However highest carbon stock of 2.60 0.32 t/

Pecan nut + Lentil 23.92 87.78 Pecan nut + Wheat 25.30 92.85 Lentil 1.17 4.29 Wheat 2.50 9.17

**) Biomass CO2 (Mg ha<sup>1</sup>**

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ployed youth in the village could get jobs through agroforestry.

(14.87 t/ha) than other cutting strategies.

**Treatment Carbon stock (Mg ha<sup>1</sup>**

*Carbon stock and biomass CO2 in pecan nut based agrihorticulture system.*

**7.5 Terrace and wayside plantation**
