Question
Which agroforestry system, widely practised in the hill and plateau regions of India, deliberately combines coffee or tea as the main cash crop with taller shade trees such as silver oak (Grevillea robusta) or Erythrina species planted above the crop canopy, mainly to moderate temperature and light intensity for the shade-loving cash crop?
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