IntroductionFor Pakistan, as a developing country, agriculture is considered the backbone of the economy. Approximately, 63.6% of Rural Pakistanis are directly or indirectly related to the agriculture sector. The share of agriculture to GDP is 18.5 % and of total 42.3%are employed in this sector. However, agriculture sector is hit hard by many ecological factors such as land degradation, climate change and water scarcity [1]. When crops fail, majority of rural people rely on forest resources for their livelihoods and most of them use trees on farms to generate food and cash. Moreover, many countries in the developing world including Pakistan draw on fuel wood to meet as much as 90%
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