Evaluation of the Implementation of Integrated Plant Pest and Disease Control by Food Crop Farmers in South Sumatra (Supervised by BAMBANG GUNAWAN) Food plants are plants that can produce the main needs for humans, namely carbohydrates and proteins. In Indonesia, the most widely cultivated food crops are rice and corn because they are the staple food for Indonesian people. One of the causes of …
Endophytic microbes are microorganisms found in plants. Endophytic strains are found in various plant parts including roots, leaves, stems, flowers and seeds. Ceratocystis is a pathogen that attacks various types of plants, such as Acacia mangium, Acacia crassicarpa, and lansium domesticum. Control of this disease by using endophytic microbial exploration to stimulate growth and development of …
Agriculture is one of the income sectors for the Indonesian people because most of the people work as farmers, where food crops and horticulture are the main commodities in the agricultural sector that are needed. Pest and disease attacks are the main obstacles that can cause losses and decreased production yields for farmers. Hence the need for environmentally friendly pest and disease control…
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides space and rights to life for all components of ecological biota without causing damage to cultivated plants. The problems faced by farmers related to pests and diseases in Banyuasin and OKU Timur are mainly faced by food crop and horticulture farmers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the compliance of food crop and horticulture farmers in implem…
Food and horticultural crops are main commodities in the agricultural sector which are needed for living. Production activities require the capacity of farmers who are able to develop potential and innovation in the cultivation of food and horticultural crops which are often constrained by pests and plant diseases which can reduce production. Therefore, it is important for farmers to understand…
Cucurbitaceous plants are horticultural crops that are widely cultivated by farmers in each growing season. Cucurbitaceous plants are plants which need intensive cares. Various constraints that inhibit the growth of this plant are due to pests and diseases, this can be detrimental to the cultivation of this plant. Integrated Pest and Disease Control (IPM) is an approach to OPT (Plant Pest Organ…
Eggplant is a vegetable horticultural commodity that is widely cultivated in Indonesia. Eggplant belongs to a group of annual plants from the Solanaceae family which are used as part of the fruit. Eggplant production in Indonesia has decreased from 518,827 tons in 2012 to 225,771 tons in 2013. This is due, in part, to pest and disease attacks on eggplant plants. The purpose of this research is …
Non-endophytic microorganisms are microorganisms that are present and found on the outside of organs and outside plant cell tissues before entering into tissue cells. In general, there are several types of bacteria in healthy plant roots, such as antagonistic bacteria Bacillus subtilis, Pseudumonas fluorescens, Serratia, and Streptomyces sp. Various types of fungus Ceratocystis sp. At present i…
Spodoptera frugiperda is one of the important invasive pests that cause damage to maize. An attack by S. frugiperda larvae can cause up to 100% damage by attacking the growing points of plants. Endophytic fungi are one of the biological controls that have been widely used in many developed countries. The use of fungal endophytes applied topically to larvae is necessary to determine larval morta…
Oil palm is a plant that has high economic value because it can produce vegetable oil. In the cultivation of oil palm can be attacked by pests or diseases. One of the main pests that attack is Oryctes rhinoceros or commonly known as the horn beetle. This beetle can attack the top of the oil palm so that it can affect the growth of the oil palm and ultimately result in low yields. If the damage …
Fungus Fusarium sp. is a soil-borne fungus that can survive longer in the soil for a long period of 15 years. Fusarium wilt attack can cause plant death. To control Fusarium wilt, one of the biological controls is to use Tricho compost. Tricho compost is able to suppress the growth and development of soil borne pathogens. This research wa conducted in a shadow house, Department of Plant Pests a…
The existence of pest attacks is an obstacle in the cultivation of tomato plants, causing losses and loss of production. This study aims to determine the effect of extracts of citronella leaves, soursop leaves and betel leaves as vegetable pesticides on populations and to test them in reducing the intensity and percentage of pest attacks on tomato plants. This research was conducted from May 20…
Pest attacks on eggplant plants can cause yield losses up to 80% or even reach 100%. Eggplant attacked by pests causes a decrease in production and affects the quality of the fruit so that it can result in crop failure. The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of botanical pesticides in suppressing pest populations on eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). This research was conducted i…
Kumbang badak Oryctes rhinoceros merupakan salah satu hama penting dalam budidaya kelapa sawit, menyerang titik tumbuh pada tanaman yang mengakibatkan kematian. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan formulasi terbaik dalam perbanyakan bioinsektisida berbahan aktif Bacillus thuringiensis pada beberapa kombinasi limbah cair yang berbeda dan tingkat mortalitasnya terhadap larva O. rhinoceros.…
Oryctes rhinoceros is one of the main pest of oil palm in Indonesia, especially on the immature plants. O. rhinoceros beetle are infesting the growing point and causing hampered growth of the plants and causing death to the host plants. The objectives of this research were to determine the effect usage of various kinds of liquid waste on B. thuringiensis growth and O. rhinoceros larval mortalit…
Kelapa sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) adalah tanaman perkebunan yang penting artinya bagi perkenomian Indonesia. Tantangan dari perkebunan kelapa sawit adanya serangan organisme pengganggu tanaman (OPT), khususnya hama kumbang tanduk (Oryctes rhinoceros). Hama O. rhinoceros menyerang tanaman kelapa sawit dengan merusak pelepah daun dan tajuk tanaman. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pe…
death to oil palm in Indonesia. The larvae of the horn beetle O. rhinoceros attack the shoots at the base of the oil palm stem which causes the growth of bees to be stunted or broken after the leaves begin to open. One good control in reducing the population of O. rhinoceros is by using B. thuringensis bacteria. B. thuringensis can be used as a bioinsecticide that can control O. rhinoceros larv…
Tanaman kelapa sawit merupakan tanaman tropis yang perkebunannya banyak ditanam di Indonesia sebagai salah satu sektor utama perekonomian. Salah satu hama penting yaitu O. rhinoceros yang dapat menyebabkan kerugian pada perekonomian yang fatal. Adapun pengendalian yang memberikan solusi yang efektif serta ramah lingkungan yaitu menggunakan bioinsektisida berbahan aktif B. thuringiensis dengan c…
Ganoderma boninense is a fungal pathogen that causes stem rot disease. Heavy attacks due to this disease can affect the productivity of oil palm plants. Temulawak extract has great potential in inhibiting the growth of pathogenic fungi. Temulawak extract is reported to have antifungal ability against pathogenic fungi. The purpose of this research is to: 1). to determine the in vitro efficacy of…
This study aimed to determine the effectivity of various doses of the herbicide mixture of topramezone and atrazine on the growth and yield of corn (Zea mays L.). The research was conducted in the experimental garden of the Faculty of Agriculture, Sriwijaya University, Indralaya, Ogan Ilir from March to July 2021. The method used in this study was a randomized block design consisted of 7 treatm…
Kelapa sawit (Elaeis guineensis) merupakan tanaman dari famili Arecaceae dan salah satu tanaman perkebunan penting bagi perekonomian indonesia. Salah satu hama penting adalah Oryctes rhinoceros. serangan kumbang tanduk dapat mematikan titik tumbuh tanaman kelapa sawit terutama pada tanaman belum menghasilkan (PBM). Salah satu pengendalian yang dapat dilakukan untuk mengurangi jumlah populasi ha…
MERI AGUSTIN, Evaluation of the Implementation of Integrated Pest and Disease Control by Food Crop and Horticultural Crop Farmers, Based on Farmer Education in South Sumatra (Guided by Dr. Ir. SUPARMAN, SHK) In an effort to save the products of plantation and agricultural commodities from pest attacks, farmers often use pesticides. This behavior is due to farmers' lack of knowledge about the ne…
Coffee plants are plantation plants that are classified as annual plants. In the cultivation of coffee plants, there are several obstacles, one of which is the decrease in coffee fruit productivity caused by the attack of the H. hampei coffee fruit borer pest. So that research was carried out in an effort to control to suppress coffee fruit borer pests by using attractant compound traps. This s…
Rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) is one of the pest insects that cause great losses. This rhinoceros beetle becomes the main pest in palm oil plants, therefore control must be carried out. One effective control and also does not pollute the environment is the bioinsectiside-based B. thuringiensis. In the stage of making bioinsecidides based on B. thuringiensis is propagated using an alter…
Army worm S. litura is one of polyphagous insects infesting various vegetables causing significant yield losses. One of alternative measures to control S. litura is by using bi-insecticide based on B. thuringiensis active ingredient cultured in agricultural byproduct ie. Rice bran, rice washing water, tofu byproduct and bio-urine. The addition of surfactant NP10 in to bioinsecticide may help th…
Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) is a polyphagous pest that attacks maize plantations in Indonesia. S. frugiperda attacks maize when maize is in the generative and vegetative phases which can be economically detrimental. One of the controls carried out in reducing the population of this pest is by using endophytic fungi. Endophytic fungi can act as entomopathogens to control S. frugiperda lar…
Spodoptera frugiperda is the main pest of maize which is polyphagous and is reported to have more than 350 hosts. This pest can also spread quickly because it has a high migratory ability so that if not controlled, S. frugiperda can reduce corn yields by 8.3 to 20.6 million tons per year from a total production of 39 million tons per year. S. frugiperda attacks can be exacerbated in the absence…
Corn is one of the many food crops that are grown and needed in Indonesia. Corn has an important role in the national economy, in addition the role of corn for the community is as one of the sources of carbohydrates, feed sources, as well as being an industrial raw material. The increasing demand for corn cannot be met if maize crops have low productivity, low productivity of corn crops can be …
This research purposes to know the diversity of pests in eggplant that using organic fertilizers. This research was done in farmer’s upland who planted eggplant in the Serai Indah Indralaya Ogan Ilir. The was identified at Department of Plant Pests and Diseases Faculty of Agriculture laboratory, Sriwijaya University. Implementation time is from March until May 2010. This research was done by …