Should India adopt agroforestry in its landscapes instead of conventional agriculture?

Day after day we continue to exploit the economic productivity of our lands; and we are daunted by the question of how to uphold this development as we face colossal increases in population the world over.
Agriculture leads to homogenisation of landscapes and intensive cultivation leads to serious implications with regard to the productivity of the soil as well as the maintenance of the flora and fauna biodiversity in that area.
We thus find ourselves facing the double-challenge of providing nourishment for the world population, and also conserving biodiversity which is primordial to our very existence.
Under these circumstances, Agroforestry could potentially improve the condition of farmers in India, as also change attitudes towards agriculture resource management.
Agroforestry is the practice of growing both trees and agricultural/horticultural crops on the same piece of land, so as to safeguard indispensable resources---environmental, economic, natural and human, by focusing on interaction between trees and crops.
It essentially involves land-use systems and technologies, using woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms and bamboos) on the same land unit as crops and/or animals. (Either in some form of temporal sequence or spatial provision.)
It is important to remember that the success of employing agroforestry on a piece of land depends upon the extent to which the tree component and the agricultural component integrate with one another ie they must be compatible so as to procure maximum benefits rather than involving hindrances to harmonious growth.
Carbon sequestration:
It is estimated that about 3 billion tons of carbon are absorbed by forests annually. Unfortunately, due to deforestation and forest fires a sizeable amount of it has been returned to the atmospshere. For example, tropical deforestation in the 1980s is estimated to have accounted for up to a