Pilihan tanaman pertanian untuk Kabupaten Aceh Barat, Provinsi Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (Agricultural Crop Options for Aceh Barat District, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province)

In the traditional agricultural systems farmers experiment on the suitablecrops and decide at the later stage of plant growth, whether they would keep theplant or replace with others that are expected to be more suitable and moreprofitable. Experts in land evaluation, based on years of studies correlate plantgrowth with climatic factors and soil properties for regionalizing crop suitability basedon soil and climate database. With a reliable database and knowledge of landsuitability one can delineate arable lands based on suitable crops or otherwise selectareas where crop(s) of interest might be suitable.The booklet of Ritung et al. (2007) focuses on simple guidelines forevaluating land suitability and exemplified its use on the tsunami-affected coastalareas of Aceh Barat District, especially for tree crops. The current booklet refers toRitung et al. (2007) for approaches and methodology in land evaluation and focusesnot only on perennial crops, but also annual crops for the entire area of the district.The land use recommendation map, as presented in this booklet, providesrange of prospective crop options in each soil mapping unit (SMU) based on soil andclimate characteristics. The recommendation covers the area that have been usedfor various kinds of crops as well as areas of idle lands that potentially can bedeveloped for productive agricultural systems. In its applications these crop optionsshould further be filtered with market, land tenure status and the direction of districtagricultural development plan.

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