Cocoa is one of the agricultural products that have a big role, especially in terms of employment, regional development, increasing farmer welfare and increasing revenues/foreign exchange. One of the main pests is the cruncher of cocoa C. cramerella Snell. The research aims to get the technology of environmentally friendly cacao borer pest control through the use of sex pheromone traps. The study was conducted in Makarti Jaya Village, Pohuwato District, Gorontalo Province for 3 months (January -March 2017), using Randomized Block Design (RAK), with 3 treatments and 6 replications. The result of the research is the use of the six traps of pheromone sex succeeded in decreasing the intensity of PBK pest attack, after one month of attack intensity attack trapping decreased to 2.23%, lower than pesticide application which only 4.49%. ABSTRAKKakao merupakan salah satu produk pertanian yang memiliki peran yang besar, khususnya dalam hal penyediaan lapangan kerja, pendorong pengembangan wilayah, peningkatan kesejahteraan petani dan peningkatan pendapatan/devisa .negara. Salah satu hama utama adalah penggerek buah kakao C cramerella Snell. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendapatkan teknologi pengendalian hama penggerek buah kakao yang ramah lingkungan melalui penggunaan perangkap feromon seks. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Desa Makarti Jaya, Kabupaten Pohuwato, Provinsi Gorontalo selama 3 bulan (Januari-Maret 2017), menggunakan Rancangan Acak Kelompok (RAK), dengan 3 perlakuandan 6 ulangan. Hasil penelitian yang didapat adalah penggunaan 6 perangkap feromon seks berhasil menurunkan intensitas serangan hama PBK, setelah satu bulan pemasangan perangkap intensitas serangan menurun hingga 2,23%, lebih rendah dari aplikasi pestisida yang hanya 4,49%. Kata kunci : feromon seks Conopomorpha cramerella Snell, penggerek buah kakao Eugenia
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