Land Suitability Evaluation for Rice Field: Farmers' Effort to Decrease Land Limitation in Mekarsari, South Kalimantan

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10.2991/icsse-17.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

land, suitability, rice field, farmers effort

Abstract

Land in Mekarsari Sub Dictrict could be classified as the swampy land. Swampy land was used as the rice field. The objectives of research was to evaluate the land suitability for rice field, and to analyze the farmers effort to overcome land limitation in Mekarsari Sub-district. Land unit map was used as the sampling location of research. Number of land unit was 36 unit. Land unit was earned from map overlay, i.e. landform map, landuse map, slope map, and soil map. The result of research showed that Mekarsari area was classified as suitable (S2), with the area was 143.50 Km2. The limitation factor of land suitablity was temperature, cation exchange capacity, and drainage. The farmers efforts to decrease the land limitation were using the Banjar system, such as preparing the seed in early wet season, and using the fertilizer to increase the cation exchange capacity.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Deasy Arisanty
AU  - Sidharta Adyatma
AU  - Ellyn Normelani
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Land Suitability Evaluation for Rice Field: Farmers' Effort to Decrease Land Limitation in Mekarsari, South Kalimantan
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences Education - "Multicultural Transformation in Education, Social Sciences and Wetland Environment" (ICSSE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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