Provides basic information on 20 commonly grown promising agroforestry tree species
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Agroforestry Research Institute (ICAR-CAFRI), Jhansi ,Uttar Pradesh has recently launched an application called FarmTree on Google Play Store for android devices. The mobile app provides a user-friendly, bi-lingual, e-platform to have all basic information on 20 commonly grown promising agroforestry tree species by farmers at their farm. It covers various aspects like common name, botanical name, family, potential area, silvi-cultural requirements, nursery techniques, planting techniques, tending operations, suitable agroforestry systems, tree protection, yield, utilization and material availability.
The app provides appropriate content supported by beautiful original photographs making it more useful for forestry professionals, naturalists, forest department personnel, students and farmers.FarmTree also provides its users a platform of having a discussion on its public forum, sending a query directly to the developers, attaching a photograph for easy communication, contacting experts and
knowing how to avail the materials.