Synthetic pesticides are widely applied for pest and disease control in Indonesia. However, a lack of knowledge and use of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for safe pesticide usage among Indonesian farmers remains a problem. This study aims to investigate the gap between farmers' knowledge of GAP for safe pesticide usage and their application of it. This research was conducted in 2020 in five Indonesian provinces. Primary data collection was by means of a survey, in which 298 respondents answered structured questionnaires. The survey also identified the sources of the information recorded and the respondents' experience of pesticide exposure. The analysis tools used were the Wilcoxon Signed Ranked Test and Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA). There were significant differences in the results of the first analysis. These results appear to confirm the results of further analysis using IPA, which show that a high level of knowledge does not mean that farmers will apply this knowledge in practice: this is particularly relevant to wearing gloves and masks, using tools to remove blockages, never clearing blocked nozzles by blowing into them, and disposing of empty containers properly. Nevertheless, in some cases high levels of knowledge do result in high levels of application. Cases of pesticide exposure affecting human health by causing symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and vomiting confirm that GAP for pesticide usage are not being implemented properly by some farmers. It is therefore recommended that their knowledge should be enhanced through the series of technical training programs using participatory approaches, so that farmers accumulate knowledge which will drive them to adopt GAP for safe pesticide usage.

<p><strong>Abstrak</strong>. Hama tanaman mengancam stabilitas produksi pertanian akibat kehilangan hasil dan penurunan produktivitas tanaman. Penurunannya berkisar antara 20-95%, bahkan bisa menyebabkan gagal panen atau puso pada serangan yang masif. Keberadaan hama dan penyakit dalam budidaya tanaman harus disikapi dengan bijaksana. Organisme pengganggu tanaman (OPT) dikendalikan secara terpadu mengikuti konsep pengendalian hama terpadu (PHT). Penggunaan pestisida kimiawi merupakan pilihan terakhir dengan memperhatikan kondisi ambang ekonomi di lapangan. Tulisan ini bertujuan menginformasikan penggunaan bahan tumbuhan sebagai pestisida nabati dalam pengendalian hama pada budidaya tanaman  pertanian, khususnya tanaman pangan. Indonesia memiliki berbagai tumbuhan sebagai sumberdaya hayati bahan pengendali hama, baik berupa biji, daun, akar, dan batang. Bahan baku pestisida nabati yang tersedia melimpah di agroekologi lahan sawah tadah hujan adalah daun/biji mimba, biji mahoni, gulma babandotan (<em>Ageratum zonycoides</em>). Bahan-bahan tersebut dapat diekstrak dan dicampur, serta ditambahkan asap cair (produk samping proses pirolisis arang hayati dari limbah pertanian) dan urin sapi. Hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan Balingtan memperlihatkan bahwa pemberian insektisida nabati meningkatkan hasil gabah kering panen lebih tinggi berturut-turut sebesar 10,8%; 24,8%; dan 48,7% untuk varietas Mekongga, Situ Bagendit, dan Ciherang, dibandingkan tanpa insektisida nabati. Penambahan urin sapi selain sebagai bahan pengendali hama juga berperan dalam memperbaiki ketersediaan hara terutama nitrogen.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abtract</strong>. <em>Plant pest threatens the stability of agricultural production due to the yield loss and the decreasing crops productivity. The loss could reach 20-95% or even totally loss when it is massivaly attacked. The existence of pest dan desease on plant cultivation has to be addressed wisely. Plant-disturbing organism is controlled in an integrated way by following the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).  The use of chemical pesticide is the last option with consideration of the economic threshold condition at the field. The objective of this paper is to inform the use of plant as the bassic matterial of botanical insecticide in controling agricultural-plant cultivation, especially for food crop. Indonesia has various resources of plants as biologically pests controller, in the form of seeds, leaves, roots and stems. Raw materials of the botanical insecticide are abundantly available in rainfed rice agroecology, i.e.neem leaves / seeds, mahogany seeds, and ageratum (Ageratum zonycoides) Those materials are extracted and mixed, then is added with the liquid smoke (side product of pyrolysis process of biocharcoal from agricultural waste) and cow urine. The research that was conducted by Indonesian of Agricultural Environment Research Institute shows that the application of botanical insecticide produced higher dried harvesting grain consecutively by 10.8%; 24.8%; and 48.% for Mekongga, Situ Bagendid, and Ciherang variety, compare to those without botanical insecticide. The addition of cow urine also improves the nutrient availability, especially for the nitrogen content</em><span>.</span></p>

Direct seeded rice (DSR) is one of the options to reduce CH4 emission because it uses less water during initial cropping but it sometimes has side effects such as increasing N2O emissions. The trade-off N2O and CH4 production in rice soils makes a real challenge to reduce the gas production. Nonetheless, few studies have observed the effect of DSR to GHG emission. This study aims to investigate the option of agriculture strategy used to reduce GHG emission without any yield loss through DSR. The study was conducted during rainy season at experimental field of Indonesian Agricultural Environment Research Institute (IAERI), Central Java, Indonesia. We compared the emission of CH4 and N2O, yield and yield components that affected by DSR and TPR practices. Total CH4 emission in TPR was from 352 kg ha−1 season−1 and, it ranged from 187 kg ha−1 season−1 in the DSR. The CH4 emissions were 47% lower for DSR than for TPR during a rice growing season. No significant differences were observed among crop establishments on N2O emissions. GWP were reduced by 46.4% under DSR compare to TPR. Crop-establishment did not influence grain yield, indicating the potential of DSR as alternative methods of establishing lowland rice with low GHG emissions.

Rock phosphate is a slow release phosphate source which can be directly used on acid soils. There are some rock phospahate deposits in Indonesia. Total phosphate and calcium content in rock phosphate vary between 8.79 -31.88% P 2 O 5 , and 0.60 -57.50% Ca. The objective of these research is to study the Indonesian rock phosphate effectivity for maize on Ultisol soil. The research wasconducted at green house using randomized complete block design, 8 treatments and 5 replications. The treatments consist of 5 kinds of different Indonesian rock phosphate, control, supherphos fertilizer and Tunisia Rock Phosphate as a standard comparison of P fertilizer. Relative Agronomic Effectivenes Analyses was used to see the effectivity of each rock phosphate. The result of these study shows that the effectiveness of Rock Phosphate from Jampang Tengah Sukabumi (DE-1), Brati Kayen Pati (DE-9), Padaherang Ciamis (DE-3), and Karang Mulya Ciamis (DE-5) were aqually the same as Superphos. Indonesian Rock Phosphate's effectivenesswas almost the same as Tunisian Rock Phosphate. Phosphate fertilizing using rock phosphate obviously increased the soil content of phosphorus, both the available P and the reserved ones, and Superphos did better than the rock phosphate. Rock phosphate effectivity on Typic Plintudults was lower than thaton Typickanhapludults.

<p class="ParaAttribute5"><strong>Abstrak. </strong>Optimalisasi lahan sawah tadah hujan memberikan kontribusi terhadap ketersediaan pangan nasional yang sebagian besar masih dipasok dari lahan optimal sawah beririgasi. Lahan suboptimal sawah tadah hujan berpotensi dalam mendukung ketersediaan pangan nasional. Lahan sawah tadah hujan sangat rentan terhadap dampak perubahan iklim terutama cekaman kekeringan dan serangan organisme pengganggu tanaman. Antisipasi dampak perubahan iklim di lahan sawah tadah hujan dilakukan dengan penerapan teknologi adaptif dan sekaligus sebagai upaya mirigasi gas rumah kaca. Beberapa teknologi adaptif yang berpotensi meningkatkan produktivitas padi sawah tadah hujan adalah penggunaan varietas unggul baru, penentuan waktu tanam dengan kalender tanam, pengelolaan sumberdaya air dengan teknologi embung, pengendalian OPT terpadu dan pengelolaan lahan. Teknologi mitigasi seperti pengairan berselang, penggunaan varietas rendah emisi, penggunaan bahan amelioran, pemupukan secara berimbang, dan integrasi tanaman padi – ternak efektif menurunkan emisi gas rumah kaca di lahan sawah tadah hujan. Integrasi tanaman pangan-ternak bebas limbah merupakan salah satu upaya mensinergiskan aksi adaptasi dan aksi mitigas terhadap perubahan iklim di ekosistem lahan sawah tadah hujan.</p><p class="ParaAttribute5"> </p><p class="ParaAttribute5"><strong>Abstract</strong>. Optimization of rainfed lowland rice contributes on national food availability which is still generally supplied from irrigated lowland rice. The sub-optimal rainfed lowland is quite susceptible to climate change impacts, especially drought stress and incidence of pests and diseases. Anticipating climate change impacts in rainfed lowland are approached by applying adaptive technology as well as greenhouse gase mitigation. Some adaptive technologies which potentially increase rainfed rice productivity are new superior varieties, cropping calendar for determining planting time, water resources management with small water reservoir, and integrated pests and diseases control. Some mitigation technologies such as intermittent irrigation, high yielding varieties with low emissions, ameliorant materials use, balanced fertilization, and integrated food crop-livestock reduce effectively greenhouse gas emissions in rainfed lowland rice areas. Integrated food crops-livestock with zero waste systems is one of synergic efforts between adaptation and mitigation actions on climate change impacts in ecosystems of rainfed lowland rice.</p>

Fertilization of K is very important to increase product agriculture besides fertilization of N and P. In this time usage fertilizer not yet proportional and rational, such as those which happened in usage rice field fertilizer of K for the crop of paddy tend to excessively. The other way in the upland needing more fertlizer but fertilized slimmer or is not fertlized K. Proportional and rational fertilization can reach if pay attention the nutrients dynamics and soil status, and also requirement of nutrient for this crop to reach optimum production. This approach can be executed better and profit if fertilization recommendation based on by result of research soil testing.  Research goal to to determine requirement of K fertilizer  for maize in Typic Kandiudox. The experiments used split-plot design, as main plot are five status nutrients and as sub plot are five treatments of K levels, three replications. The levels of K treatment were 0, 20, 40, 80, and 160 kg K/ha from KCl fertilizer and as indicator crop was maize cultivar P-12.  The result showed that NH4OAc. pH 4,8, NH4OAc. pH 7,0, and HCl 25% were selected extraction methode to estimate K fertilizer requirement  for Maize (Zea mays L.) in Typic Kandiudox and NH4OAc. 1 N pH 4,8 was the best extractan, because get highest coefisien corelation. The K status can be grouped into three classes of availability of K are low, medium, and high with the critical limit for each extractan are 5,0; 10,0; dan 130 mg kg-1 K2O for NH4OAc. 1 N pH 4,8, NH4OAc. 1 N pH 7,0, and HCl 25 % extractants respectively. Optimum dosages of K fertilizer was 150 kg ha-1 and 75 kg ha-1 KCl each for the low and medium status and do not be fertilized for the high status.

The use of botanical insecticide is one of the ways to reduce the negative impact on the agricultural environment due to chemical insecticide applications. Some plants have been identified as botanical insecticide such as Azadirachta indica (Neem), Swietenia mahagoni (Mahagony), Aegle marmelos (Maja fruit), etc. This study was conducted as a part of the demonstration farm located in the swamp rice field in South Kalimantan. The objective of the study was to increase the swamp rice yield by controlling plant pests and disease based on local resources environment friendly. The plot experiment was arranged in a randomized block design with three treatments and six replications and the plot size wase 1.000 m2. The treatments consisted of fully RAISA technology (T1 treatment), RAISA + IAERI botanical insecticide (T2 treatment), and RAISA + Galam botanical insecticide (T3 treatment). The result showed that the highest yield rice was produced in T2 treatment (6.5 t ha−1 unhusked dry rice), then T3 and T1 treatments were 5.5 and 5.1 t ha−1 unhusked dry rice, respectively. The highest amount of insect was found at T1 treatment, followed T2 and T3 treatments, respectively.

<p>ABSTRAK</p><p>Penelitian bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh fosfat alam asalIndonesia terhadap kadar P dalam tanah dan pertumbuhan kelapa sawit.Penelitian dilaksanakan di rumah kaca Balai Penelitian Tanah di Laladon,Bogor dari bulan Juni sampai Desember 2009, dengan menggunakanrancangan percobaan acak kelompok dengan 8 perlakuan dan diulang 5kali. Perlakuan yang dicoba adalah 5 P-alam asal Indonesia, ditambahSuperphos, P-alam Tunisia, dan kontrol. Tanah yang digunakan adalahTypic Kanhapludults dan Typic Plinthudults yang diambil dari Lampung,dengan tanaman indikator adalah kelapa sawit. Hasil penelitianmenunjukkan bahwa pemupukan P nyata meningkatkan diameter batang,tinggi tanaman, berat akar dan berat kering tanaman. Pemupukan P denganSuperphos memberikan peningkatan yang lebih tinggi daripada pemu-pukan dengan fosfat alam. Efektivitas pupuk P-alam pada TypicPlintudults lebih rendah dibandingkan pada Typic Kanhapludults. PupukP-alam dari Indonesia sama efektifnya dengan P-alam Tunisia untukpemupukan tanaman kelapa sawit. Pemupukan P dengan Superphos padatanaman kelapa sawit nyata meningkatkan kadar P tanah lebih tinggidaripada kadar P tanah yang dipupuk P-alam. Pemberian pupuk P belumberpengaruh terhadap kadar P dalam akar dan tanaman kelapa sawit dalampembibitan.</p><p>Kata kunci: Elaeis guinensis, kelapa sawit, tanah masam, fosfat alam</p><p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Effectiviness of several rock phosphate deposites fromIndonesia as P fertilizer sources on the growth of oilpalmseedling on ultisols</p><p>The aim of this research was to study the effect of rock phosphatefrom Indonesia on P content on the soil and growth of oil palm. Thisresearch was conducted at the glass house of Indonesian Soil ResearchInstitute, Laladon Bogor from June to December 2009, using randomizedcomplete block design (RCBD) with 8 treatments and 5 replicates. Thetreatments were 5 types of Indonesia rock phosphate, Superphos, Tunisiarock phosphate, and control. The soils used were Typic Kanhapudults andTypic Plinthudults, and oil palm nursery as plant indicator. The resultshowed that P fertlizer was significant to increase trunk diameter, plantheight, root weight, and plant dry weight. Superphos fertilizer increasedtrunk diameter, plant height, root weight, and plant dry weigth better thanrock phosphate. Effectivity of rock phosphate at Typic Plinthudults waslower than at Typic Kanhapludults. Indonesian rock phosphate waseffective for fertilizing oil palm, as well as Tunisia rock phosphate. Pfertilization using Superphos significantly increased P soil content and wasbetter than rock phosphate. Application of rock phosphate did notinfluence P contents in root and plant of oil palm in nursery.</p><p>Key words: Elaeis guinensis, oil palm, acid soils, rock phosphate</p>