Maize Performance in Terrace and Non-Terrace Sloping Land
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Date
2013
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Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian
Abstract
In Indonesia, convertion of fertile agricultural lands into, among others, industrial and residential areas
has triggered more intensive and extensive exploitation of marginal- and deforested- sloping lands. In Gorontalo
province, about one-fifth of sloping forested area has been deforested and converted to upland agriculture or
abandoned as schrubs, bushes, and bare lands. This study demonstrates the benefit of using terrace and manure
in sustaining maize yield and land productivity as well as reducing soil erosion of cultivated sloping land. It was
revealed that maize height, leaf number, kernel number and weight at terrace plot were higher than that of control.
Broader variability’s of the observed vegetative and generative variables were also identified at terrace plot.