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Lecture Schedule
Sr. No.
Topic
No. of Lecture (s)
Theory
1.
Concept of crop productivity. Productivity potential in relation
to light, water and nutrients
02
2.
System complementarily, supplementarity, competitiveness,
sustainability and management techniques
03
3.
Tree root architecture, reallocation of resources within the
plant system
02
4.
Biological yield and harvest index. Growth and yield functions.
Land equivalent ratio
03
5.
Water use efficiency, photosynthetic efficiency, radiation balance,
canopy transmissivity, canopy management, plant geometry
and crop yield
03
6.
Allelopathic effects. Strategies to improve the efficiency and
productivity of different land use systems
03
7.
Role of various financing agencies in agroforestry and critical
evaluation of different credit systems with emphasis on agroforestry
03
8.
Methodologies for evaluating agroforestry hedonic pricing, PES,
LER and LEV
03
9.
Financial, economic and social accounting of agroforestry projects
04
10.
Advances in marketing management of agroforestry products
02
11.
Evaluating combined productivity and profitability of different
agroforestry systems 
vis-a- vis
other competitive agrobased systems
03
12.
Tree insurance schemes
01
Total
17

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Practical
1.
Techniques for leaf area index, photosynthetically active radiation,
soil moisture and leaf water potential and canopy density
measurements.
6
Exercises on developing alternative optimal agroforestry plans
under perfect and imperfect knowledge situations.
6
2.
Socio-economic and financial evaluation of agroforestry projects.
4
Total
16