The paper is part of the panel "Expected benefits of agroforestry - preliminary results of the project TAČR TL01000298. The paper sums up preliminary results of the qualitative survey among private farmers in the South Moravian and Central Bohemian regions which examined the farmers' attitudes towards keeping trees on farmland and their opinions on existing European agroforestry systems, as well as their potential and barriers towards implementation in the Czech Republic.