Indian dairy sector is estimated to contribute around 18.5 per cent of world total milk production from 512.1 million livestock (Sarvade and Upadhyay, 2019) with annual growth rate around 4.1 per cent.

to assess the yield losses in rainfed rice due to weed competition under different pruning intensity of Dalbergia sissoo based Agroforestry system. Rice performance in an agroforestry system with four pruning regimes (light (25%), moderate (50%), heavy (75%), and no pruning) were compared with rice grown in open condition and four weed management treatments (W1:

to assess the effect of pruning and weedicide application on soil properties in Rice-Dalbergia Sissoo based agroforestry system. The result revealed that EC, pH and organic carbon was at par during the experiment and the available N, P and K increases with decreasing intensities from 75 to no pruning. Hence highest value was recorded under no pruning which was significantly superior over other pruning treatments except P 25. The 75% pruning and open condition recorded the lowest content NPK. From pooled data it was noted that with the increasing of pruning intensity significantly decreased the NPK status of soil hence higher content of 308.14, 14.78 and 387.18 kg/ha of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium respectively. Where, the lowest NPK status was observed under open condition and possess the values of 247.68, 11.26 and 282.12 kg/ ha respectively. Thus, the study suggests that Agroforestry land use system proved most compatible for increment in soil nutrient status as compare to sole cropping.