MANAJEMEN HUTAN TROPIKA Journal of Tropical Forest Management
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2007)

Study on Impact of Agroforestry Model to the Growth of Teak (Tectona grandis L.F) Plants

Nurheni Wijayanto (Departemen Silvikultur, Fakultas Kehutanan IPB)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2007

Abstract

The objective of this research was to learn effect of agroforestry pattern on the growth of teak crops and the other crops. The research was conducted for 1 year in teak forest stand (1 years old) with site quality index (bonita) was 3.5. Experimental design with 10 observations per block.Blocks in this research were agroforestry pattern 1 (intercropping during the whole cycle of the main crop) and agroforestry pattern 2 (temporary intercropping). There were 2 treatments: (1) litters of corn crops were put on rows of teak crops and no fertilizers were added,(2) fertilizers were added, but litters of corn crops were taken away, and (3) fertilizers were added, and litters of corn crops were put on rows of teak crops. Area size of each observation plat was 0.05 ha. Analysis of variance on the average increament of total height of teak crop and production of dry kernel (corn seeds which had been detached from corn cob) that showed significant results were further analyzed by the use of Duncan Least Significant Difference Test. Conclusions of this research were: (1) agroforestry pattern 1 had greater effect as compared to agroforestry pattern 2 on the growth of total height of teak crop, (2) agroforestry pattern 1 had greater effect as compared to agroforestry pattern 2 on the production increase of dry corn kernels.Keywords: agroforestry, intercropping, analysis of variance, total height, production

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jmht

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Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry

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Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is a periodic scientific articles and conceptual thinking of tropical forest management covering all aspects of forest planning, forest policy, utilization of forest resources, forest ergonomics, forest ecology, forest inventory, silviculture, and management of ...