According to all the previous three analyses, agroforestry is the mitigation option with the greatest emission reduction potential. Agroforestry is the interface between agriculture and forestry and encompasses mixed land- use practices. The term typically refers to land-use practices in which trees and other woody perennials are spatially or temporally integrated with crops and livestock on a given unit of land. It is distinct from forestry options, discussed in Chapter 5, because it targets lands that are currently in use for agriculture. The mitigation option encourages compliance with the Agricultural Farm Forestry Rules that require every land holder to maintain a compulsory farm tree cover of at least 10% on any agricultural land holding.19 The agroforestry mitigation option targets existing arable cropland and grazing lands that have high or medium agricultural potential. The total area of arable cropland and grazing land is estimated in the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy 2010-2020 to be approximately 5,620,000 hectares. The current extent of tree cover on this agricultural land is not known, but at least, 10 percent tree cover on farms is targeted by the Agricultural (Farm Forestry) Rules 2009. Without additional information on the total area of land under agroforestry at the farm level, the proposed action aims to increase the total area under agroforestry at farm level by 200,000 acres by 2022. It is assumed that achieving 5% of additional tree cover on these lands using agroforestry practices is possible and a reasonable mitigation scenario. Therefore, the low carbon scenario assumes that an additional 200,000 acres (81,000) Ha is converted to agroforestry between the years 2018 and 2022. This is equivalent to an average afforestation rate of 16,200 Ha per year over the 5 years. In the NCCAP, SNC and the NDC Sector Analysis, was assumed that an addition 281,000 Ha of land would be converted to agroforestry between 2015 and 2030. This is equivalent to an annual average conversion rate of 18,000 Ha. While the proposed action is slightly less ambitious than the previous studies, the difference would not be significant in terms of GHG emission reductions. Therefore, the earlier rate of 18,000 Ha per year leading to establishment of agroforestry in 90,000 Ha