Browsing by Author "Zainal Abidin"

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    Improving Index Pattern in Low Land Rice with Corn in Konawe Southeast Sulawesi
    (Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian, 2013) Zainal Abidin; Idris; Muhammad Rusman
    The demand of corn especially for the feed still increase every year. Government used import strategy to fulfill the national demand. The one effort that can be taken is increasing national corn production through application several technologies. One technology to increase the corn production is using low land rice as a field to developing corn with improving Index Pattern (IP). In Southeast Sulawesi, this technology still not familiar, but its potential is large to drive the growth of the national corn production. The assessment was conducted using two methods: field study and survey methods. Assessment form field trials on paddy fields for planting corn with the pattern: rice - sweet corn - corn for feed (pattern 1). As for the pattern: sweet corn - sweet corn - sweet corn (pattern 2) and rice pattern: Rice - Rice (pattern 3) conducted by survey, this is because these pattern has been familiar at the farm level. The results of the study showed that increasing IP in low land rice using corn has good potential to be developed. Cropping pattern - sweet corn - sweet corn - corn feed gives highest revenue IDR 24,885,200/ha/year. While cropping pattern sweet corn - sweet corn - sweet corn - sweet corn can provide a total revenue of IDR 21,816,000/ha/year. Both cropping pattern with the IP 400% providing much higher revenues than in the existing cropping pattern rice - rice – fallow which provides revenue only IDR 9,640,000/ha/year. Increased IP by entering the feed corn as one of the options on the cropping pattern of rice - sweet corn - sweet corn - corn feed, can increasing farmers’ revenues, while also able to maintain the stability of sweet corn that is often over-supply.
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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.