ANALISIS INDEKS KUALITAS TANAH PERTANIAN DI LAHAN PASIR PANTAI SAMAS YOGYAKARTA (ANALYSIS OF SOIL QUALITY INDEX FOR SAND DUNE AGRICULTURE LAND AT SAMAS YOGYAKARTA)

Partoyo, - (2005) ANALISIS INDEKS KUALITAS TANAH PERTANIAN DI LAHAN PASIR PANTAI SAMAS YOGYAKARTA (ANALYSIS OF SOIL QUALITY INDEX FOR SAND DUNE AGRICULTURE LAND AT SAMAS YOGYAKARTA). Jurnal Ilmu Pertanian, 12 (2). pp. 140-151. ISSN 0126-4214

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Abstract

The utilization of sand dune at Samas for agriculture land has been started since 1986 and still expanding. The main treatment applied to improve soil properties in the land was adding clay soil and cattle manure with dose based on the prior research. This study was conducted in Bulak Tegalrejo, Samas, Bantul, aimed to calculate soil quality index for different age of land use, so that it could be recognized relationship between period of land utilization and soil quality improvement. The result showed that according to soil quality index, the applied treatment could improve soil quality. The better soil quality, the higher soil quality index. Land utilized for 19 and 11 years had better soil quality than virgin land, while land utilized for 3 years had no significant different compared to the virgin land. Soil quality index for the three locations were 0.35; 0.32; 0.28 and 0.17 for land uitilzed for 19, 11, 3 and virgin land respectively.

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