PEMUPUKAN BAHAN ORGANIK UNTUK PERTUMBUHAN DAN HASIL UMBI TALAS SUTRA

Ridwan Diaguna (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)
Edi Santosa (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)
Candra Budiman (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)
Ahmad Zamzami (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)
Okti Syah Isyani Permatasari (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)
Aldi Kamal Wijaya (Departemen Agronomi dan Hortikultura, Fakultas Pertanian, IPB University)

Jurnal AGROSAINS dan TEKNOLOGI
Vol 7, No 1 (2022)

Indonesia has a great taro diversity and had been utilized for long time. Taro has more competitiveness including high nutrition, wide adaptation, and ease for cultivation, further, it’s very potential to be the future food and create new economical value. The objective of the research was to obtain the organic manure fertilizer effect on sutra taro variety growth and yield. The research was conducted for eight months from January till August 2021 at Leuwikopo Farm, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University. A Completely Randomized Block Design (CRBD) with five replications and four-level organic manure treatments (0.25 kg, 0.5 kg, 0.75 kg, and 1.00 kg per plant) was applied. Taro growth, corm characters, and yields were affected by organic manure fertilizer dose. The dose of 0.75-1.00 kg/plant (equivalent to 15-20 ton/ha) showed the highest growth, corm characters and yields more than the lower doses. Taro “Sutra variety” cultivation by fully using organic manure fertilizers is very potential to be encouraged.