THE INFLUENCE OF SCOPE AND LEAVES ON THE GROWTH OF PEPPER IN SEEDINGS Azri (a*), Muhammad Hatta (b)
Assessment Institue for Agricultural Technology of West Kalimantan
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Pepper is one of the plantation crop commodities that can support the economy and the lives of the people of this area. This is very reasonable because most of the population of West Kalimantan still relies on a source of income from pepper. In 2017, the area of pepper plants in West Kalimantan reached 10,307 ha with production of 5,499 tonnes, and in 2018 10,550 ha with production of 5,446 tonnes. The area of pepper plants in West Kalimantan has increased but its productivity has decreased. The productivity of pepper in West Kalimantan is still low compared to the national one. The average productivity of West Kalimantan pepper is below 0.85 tonnes / ha compared to the national 1.5 tonnes / ha. The main problems with pepper plants in West Kalimantan are the availability of superior seeds for pepper, low productivity and the presence of disease attacks, the application of pepper cultivation techniques is still simple, the application of fertilizers is not in accordance with the recommended dosage, the attack of pests and diseases. The treatment to be examined is the type of plastic cover and foliar fertilizer. The types of hoods are: white plastic cover (S1), black plastic cover, 3. The cover from coconut midrib (S3) and the foliar fertilizers used are without foliar fertilizer (D0) and foliar fertilizer (D1), the number of repetitions is 4 times, with The treatment combination consisted of S1D0, S1D1, S2D0, S2D1, S3D0 and S3D1 the number of plants per plot of 16 plants so that the total number of plants was 16x 6x 4 = 384 plants. The treatment design used a randomized block design (RBD) with factorial. For this reason, obtaining and providing large quantities of pepper seeds needs to be carried out to provide new superior pepper seeds. However, there is still a high percentage of dead pepper seeds, so it is necessary to do research on the types of seed caps and accelerate the growth of the seeds by providing foliar fertilizer. The purpose of this study w
Keywords: Keywords: cover, growth capacity, pepper seeds, foliar fertilizer
Topic: Crop Production and Environment
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