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    Increasing Corn Productivity with Application Cashew Skin as an Organic Fertilizer in Muna Regency South East Sulawesi
    (Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian, 2013) Asmin; Zainal Abidin
    Increasing production and productivity of corn continues to be encouraged by the government. One effort that can be taken is the development of technologies that use organic fertilizer. On the other hand cashew farm cultivated by people in Muna generate considerable waste and environmental problems. The assessment was conducted to determine the application of organic fertilizer made from cashew skin to increase corn production. The assessment was conducted on 3 ha area in Muna Regency 2011. The technology was used in farmer cooperators are organic fertilizers as much as 2 t/ha + Phonska fertilizer as much as 100 kg, which was comparable to the non cooperators farmers that used an organic fertilizers Phonska as much as 300 kg / ha. The results of the assessment indicate that organic fertilizer which produced from cashew waste can be applied for corn farming. The potential waste cashew shell that can be produced an aorganic fertilizer in South East Sulawesi about 26,226,750 tons. Application organic fertilizer comes from waste of cashew skin as much as 1.000 kg/ha and an organic fertilizer NPK Phonska can give production around 5.650 kg per ha per season. While the farmers treatment who only use NPK fertilizer Phonska of 300 kg/ha gave a production of 3.300 kg. The economic analysis indicates that application organic fertilizer from waste cashew skin in to corn farming can provide a net profit around IDR 8,497,000/ha higher than the farmer technology that only gave net profit of IDR 4,097,000/ha. Waste cashew nut has a great potential to use as an organic fertilizers and applied on corn to raise national maize production.