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Increasing Tomato Yield in a Sandy Dryland Through the Application of UV Plastic Shade and Soil Amendment Laila Safta; I Komang Damar Jaya; Herman Suheri; Sudirman Sudirman
Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA Vol 11 No 1 (2025): January
Publisher : Postgraduate, University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29303/jppipa.v11i1.10259

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Cultivating tomato plants in dry, sandy soils aims to achieve high yields while enhancing or maintaining soil fertility. This study investigates the effects of soil amendments and ultraviolet (UV) plastic shade on tomato yield and various indicators of soil fertility. The experiment was conducted in the dryland of Gumantar village, North Lombok Regency, Indonesia, during the dry season from May to August 2024. The soil amendment factor included three levels: no soil amendment, chicken manure, and seaweed biochar. Meanwhile, the shading factor consisted of two levels: no shading and shading with UV plastic (200-micron thickness, which transmits 86% of UV light). All treatments received inorganic NPK fertilizer (16-16-16) at a rate of 1,200 kg per hectare. Treatments were arranged factorially using a randomized block design with three replications. Results showed an interaction between soil amendments and shading that affected soil pH, the number of fruits, and fruit weight per plant and plot. The highest fruit weight per plant, recorded at 4.2 kg with 100.7 fruits, was achieved using seaweed biochar and shading. The treatments slightly improved soil fertility indicators, such as soil organic carbon (C-organic), total microbial count, and cation exchange capacity. Applying soil amendment and UV plastic shading can be a sustainable practice for tomato crops production in sandy dryland soils
Crop Diversification Grown as Strip Intercropping Can Improve Farmers' Return in a Dryland with Sandy Soil I Komang Damar Jaya; Herman Suheri; Wayan Wangiyana; Akhmad Zubaidi
Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA Vol 10 No 6 (2024): June
Publisher : Postgraduate, University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29303/jppipa.v10i6.7730

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Maize and mungbean are two common crops grown in dryland areas with sandy soil structures. This study aimed to explore the potential of adding cayenne pepper to increase crop diversity using strip intercropping (SI) as a potential system to improve farmers' return. There were seven treatments tested: monoculture maize, monoculture mungbean, monoculture cayenne pepper, SI maize and mungbean, SI maize and cayenne pepper, SI mungbean and cayenne pepper, and SI maize, mungbean, and cayenne pepper. The size of the treatment plot was 700 cm × 500 cm, and all the treatments were arranged in a Randomized Block Design with three replications. The study showed no difference in the land equivalent ratio (LER) for all the SI treatments, with a value of around 1.0. This indicates no advantage of SI over monocropping in terms of land usage. However, when the market prices valued the yield of each component crop in SI at harvest, the highest economic value came from monocrop cayenne pepper treatment (IDR 246 million ha-1). All the SI treatments involving cayenne pepper resulted in a higher return than the monoculture of maize or mungbean. The lowest economic value was shown by monoculture mungbean treatment (IDR 33.1 million ha-1). These results indicate that diversifying crops can improve farmers' return, especially by incorporating cayenne pepper in dryland with sandy soil.