Criteria Of Potential Land and Crucial Land
Before the cultivate time come it is better if you define which land is yours, potential or Crucial land. you can define it from the criteria listed below.
Potential land criteria:
- it is fertile land. It can be define as fertile land if it included of mineral that needed by plants. You have to match what mineral that needed by your plant. If your plant is seal plant it will need phosphor, meanwhile if your plant is kind of vegetable it need N2 and i need alkali if your plant is tuber plant. Fertile land can be found in volcanoes area as there are lava that can make the land fertile.
- It has good ability in absorbing water and it also has air draught. Potential land can absorb water and also can save it till it needed for next time. The potential land will become crucial land caused by land erosion. It can lose the first coat of land it leave crucial land.
A land can be define as Crucial land when you find some criteria listed below:
- Unfertile land. This land is less of mineral. Usually it found often in an area that has destruction land caused by Erosion or flood.
- Then it is less of humus. This kind of land more over can be found in mountain as any leave or branch that mixed with the land. You will find this kind of land in area that there are many plants like in forest.
After you can define what land is yours, you can do what has to be done to your land. It will be better if you give attention to your land by asking solution to the expert if your land is defined as crucial land.
Compose Traditional Medicine
There are many kinds of herbal plant that can be used to make medicines. The usage of herbal plant for making medicine has known in China fore more than 2800 years before century. They have know many kinds of herbal medicine and what plant that can be used to compose them become a medicine. Till now China still known as producer of traditional medicine with high quality. Today not only China that use traditional medicine to cure or to defense the stability of health but in Europe continent also use herbal plant to cure some pain.
We also can compose a traditional medicine to keep our healthy. There are some herbal plant that can you choose to compose traditional medicine. They are:
- Pappermint. This herbal plant can be used to make fresh breath, it also can make you free to breath
- Stinging nettle. This herbal plant can be used for cure anemia as it consist of nutrition such c vitamin.
- Marigold that can be used for anti allergy, irritation or many other
- Echinasea. It leaves or the roof can be used for traditional medicine
Meanwhile if you want to compose your own traditional medicine you need to know what have to be done:
Make sure that you have know what kind of herbal medicine needed. If you find difficult you can ask to some expert, Make sure that you can find many herbal plants. and the most important is do not wait till your pain become ugly pain.
How to Maintain Bombaceae
Bombaceae is one of fruit commodity that has high value for farmers and many benefits that can be taken from cultivating Bombaceae, not only from the fruit but also from its tree. Tree of Bombaceae can be used for prevanting soil erotion and making some furniture because most of wood that can be found is straight. It is right that there are many benefits that can be taken from cultivating this fruit as farmer will get high value , but it is not easy to maintain Bombaceae. There are many attention have to given by farmers such;
The Climate, Maximally it can be cultivated in an area with 3000-3500 mm of rain/year and the lower rain that needed is 1500-3000mm/year. It is better getting rain for long year with 1-2 month of dry season than it get rain continue. It also need to be paid attention that the it need sun sign 60-80%. When it still become young plant it can’t stand to the strong sun sign.That is way it need to be protected. It will grow well in 20-30 degree of celsiouce.
kind of soil that can be used is fertile soil with the balance of sand and the dirt. It also need kind of soil that rich of organic material. We can choose Grumsol or ondosol with criteria of this soil are dark gray, it has high ability to save water, on the first face of soil morsel and the the lower interlining is clod. It also 6-6,5 pH acid.
Good quality not only taken from the way of maintain but the tree must from good seal too. We can get it from fruit that really good of course you have to know what criteria of good fruit. Or you can combine some stems of trees to get the besr
Solving Pain Coconut
Coconut is one of the commodities that produce in big number and it is consumed by most f people, for additional ingredients, Making cake and many other benefits that can be taken from coconut. But some times among farmers get problem in maintain coconut trees. It is included a bug and there is a kind of bugs that can radiate to the other plant quickly.
This is BPK that I adopted from Indonesian is disease that can radiate to the other trees by following wind and is brought by insect. Indication of this disease are : desiccated of leaves around the coconut then top of coconut will putrid and then it will drop before harvesting tie, it is 3-4 weeks.
There are some ways to solving this disease. They are culture technique, sanitised, burning, chemical and felling. Culture technique can be done by making ditch between trees. Its aim is to avoid over watering when rain fall down. It can be way for water to flow to the other place . it is carried out because of BPK comes when rain season and it bring more water for coconut tree. When harvesting time burn all of coconut fruit to be burned.
Then chemical technique can be injection to the root of coconut tree, stem injection or spouting chemical. Root injection is technique that usually done for young trees meanwhile stem injection done for coconut tree in producing period. These injection are done by using fungisida sistemic. We can do this technique with dosage 40-60ml/tree every six month. I also can be applied for all of trees around pain tree and can be done after harvesting time. This technique will be done more often when there is booming pain. we can give injection every 2 months.
Then to do root injection we have to choose a root that has 1 cm diameter then cut it in the end of the root. Put it into plastic that has been fulled by chemical then bunch the top of plastic. Meanwhile to do stem injection we can making holes with 1 cm in deep and 1,5 in diameter. It made on the tree wit 1 meter from soil. Then inject it with chemical then stanch the hole.Spouting technique can be done by using spouter and the we use fungisida sistemic for stop disease for tree that has falling fruit.
Farming Clinic
Some weeks ago Indonesia has gotten a appreciation as a country that has stability in handle the big problem happened in the world. Indonesia also appreciate as country that has the improvement in supplying food for people. This is show that some efforts have done by government get the result.
Based on some efforts have been done by government why we do not try to implemented one way that has done in some agrarian country. This is by formalizing a board that create in every farming area that can be called as Farming Clinic. This clinic hoped to help farmers in solving their problem around farming process. It must not big room with high technology equipment. It can be small room with simple technology and some experts in it.By this way farmers can get solution about the farming problem such pest handling and the others. They also can watch the improvement of farming sector in an area.
Actually this way has done by some country in the word to get the quality of farming. They are Bolivia, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, USA and many others. They built a clinic that service farmers in order to get better way or do an examination to symptoms in a plant. It is hoped there are much improvement that gotten by farmers who live far away from farming board.
Not only for rice plant, it also can be many plants that can be exam in order to get the other commodities. If today Indonesia get an appreciation in handling rice crisis, by making farming clinic we will get the other commodity of farming.
Utilization of Straw for Biofuel
Straw can be found in many farming area in Indonesia. There are some profits that can be taken from straw. Some farmers use it for feeding their animal such cow, buffalo and the others. It also can be used for planting oysters fungus which instead of sawdust. Some months ago was found a new profit that can be taken from straw which less in use.
It can be used to create biofuel which has became solution for people as the respect of the fuel extinct in word. Acting as the discoverer was Xiujin Li from Beijing Chemistry technology University. ” all of steps are done in room temperature, without addition energy, little of water to get simple, quick, cheap and safe for environment”. Actually in producing process also create carbondioksida but it is not as much as straw burning. It also create scrap that can be used for compost fertilizer.
China is a country that has more than 230 tons of straw which less of usage. Till now China has been developing three technology that used to convert straw become biofuel. Straw in China is used to produce biofuel in gas form. It has been trained and the result was the improvement of methan and carbon dioksida till 65 %.
In 30 countries, the producing of Biofuel has been done but the material that used is foodstuff. Of course it is not exactly true
Metode yang sama sebenarnya juga sudah digunakan untuk memproduksi ethanol di lebih dari 30 negara. Namun, bahan yang diolah adalah tebu, jagung, dan kedelai yang notebene merupakan sumber pangan utama manusia, bukan bahan buangan.
Tips Penggunaan Pestisida
Usaha untuk kembali ke pertanian yang dilakukan secara alami sebenarnya sudah dilakukan sejak tahun 90-an. Para petani in sadar akan bahayanya penggunaan pestisida terhadap hasil panen yang banyak dikonsumsi oleh masyarakat. Namun penolakan untuk tidak menggunakan pestisida masih dilakukan oleh sebagian besar petani. Jika demikian maka penggunaan pestida haruslah dilakukan dengan seksama untuk menghindari pencemaran pencemaran lingkungan yang berlebihan. Berikut adalah tips yang saya dapatkan dari www.deptan.go.id untuk melakukan pencegahan terhadap pencemaran lingkungan:
1. Ketahuilah atau pahamilah dengan yakin tentang kegunaan
suatu jenis pestisida. Jangan sampai terjadi salah berantas.
Misalnya herbisida jangan digunakan untuk membasmi
serangga. Hasilnya, serangga yang dimaksud belum
tentu mati, sedangkan tanah atau tanaman telah
terlanjur tercemar.
2. Ikuti petunjuk – petunjuk mengenai aturan pakai dan
dosis yang dianjurkan pabrik atau petugas
penyuluh.
3. Jangan terlalu tergesa – gesa menggunakan
pestisida. Tanyakan kepada penyuluh apakah
sudah saatnya digunakan pestisida, karena
belum tentu suatu jenis hama harus diberantas dengan
pestisida.
4. Jangan telat memberantas hama. Jika penyuluh sudah
menganjurkan untuk menggunakan pestisida, cepatlah
dilakukan. Dengan semakin meluasnya hama akan
membutuhkan penggunaan pestisida dalam jumlah
besar, yang berarti hanya akan memperbesar peluang
terjadinya pencemaran.
5. Jangan salah pakai pestisida. Selain satu jenis
pestisida biasanya hanya digunakan untuk suatu jenis
hama tertentu, terkadang usia tanaman yang berbeda
menghendaki jenis pestisida yang berbeda pula.
6. Pahamilah dengan baik cara pemakaian
pestisida. Jangan sampai tercecer di sekitar
tanaman.
7. Jika pestisida yang akan digunakan harus
dibuat larutan terlebih dahulu, gunakan tempat
yang khusus untuk itu.Pada waktu mengaduk,
larutan jangan sampai tercecer ke tempat lain. Perhatikan
dengan tepat jumlah larutan yang dibuat
FAO Appreciation For Indonesia
When many other countries that get crisis or food, Indonesia stated as country that has unlisted as less food country. Indonesia supply 36 % for world need of rice. Many leader of the countries admit it and proud Indonesia. In FAO conference which was hold in Roma, Indonesia asked by Madagaskar president to send farming expert to make Madagaskar get increase in fulfill the need of food for people.
Meanwhile in Andalas University West of Sumatera, PTS program which is adapted from SRI program in Madagaskar was done. This program has known get success in increase the crop. From the experiment that has implemented to 1000 fields in West Sumatera and for each hectare get increase 2 tons of rice.
By this way, West Sumatera believe that it can give more contribution in supply rice for country. It is also planned to be socialized to the other group of farming and it is hopped to get more result in fulfill the need of food.
Future Farming Business Oppurtunity
The knowing of the danger of chemical material in farming make many people doubt with the quality with their food which they consume every day. The use of chemical in farming is focused on the increase of number of crops to fulfill people need of food and also to minimize harvesting time. With this reason some of farming expert believe that natural farming or organic farming has good prospect in future.The principal in organic farming is usage of material which are gotten without chemical material.
Some of cultivation method which can be said as organic farming are :
- farm nutrition cultivation
- plant rotation
- kind of ecology and agronomy
- Biotechnology and the main plant
- handling pest
- animal participation in farming
Doing organic farming has to follow the limitation. It is same with chemical farming which can destroy soil construction if it over in usage.
It will be the big chance for farmer to get the benefit in selling their crop as there are many requirement organic crop from big countries in America and EUROPE market. But the number of organic material that still difficult to found has become the reason why some farmer choose to do chemical farming. Beside that the habit in using chemical material to get short time in harvesting also become the cause of organic farming grow slowly.
Peanute Cuticle Stringer Machine
We have to admit that by using technology we can get more crop than we use traditional way in farming. We have realize this for long time, also by farmers. But the technology which expensive enough for farmer make their farming is not optimal.
This is also happen to peanut farmer. They get difficult to find good seed to be planted for 100% can grow up. They doubt about the quality of peanut seed that sold in the shop as they found many seeds did not grow up frequently. That is why they pare their peanuts to get good seed. But the other problem is it need long time to pare the peanuts.
For this reason why a vocational high school teacher, Anang Sucipto, creats a simple technology that can be used for farmer in getting best seeds to be planted. actually this machine was a modification of factory machine which was minimize and some parts of the machine were changed.
The modification was done in the stringer which in factory machine use iron stick. This was changed with the other form, it was bumps. With bumps form it can avoid the peanuts seed to be broken when the pare process happen in pare room then seeds will not grow when they were planted. Meanwhile if the stringer was made in bumps form it will give more room for peanut seed when pare process and this is make difference between factory machine and Anang’s Machine.
With low price and low cost in operation many farmers has use this machine and the can see the result the strength of peanut seeds broken was lower than peanut seeds that were gotten from farming shop. This machine also become the first winner of the Contest of Simple Technology that was held in POLITEKNIK Malang some months ago.
