The Farmer's Perception Towards the Integrated Pest Control Based on Ecological Engineering in Karang Sari Village of Belitang East Oku Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

as the details of the indicator is the level of knowledge by both criteria, the complexity of the criteria was, the level of compliance with good criteria, the level of ease've seen good results with the criteria, and the rate of profit relative to the criteria. Income of farmers in rice farming activities in the village of Karang Sari Kecamaatan East OKU District III Belitang average of Rp 34.438, 094 / lg / y by using ecological engineering (refugia) in the village of Karang Sari Subdistrict Belitang East OKU District III. Based on the results of the analysis of statistical tests using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient with n = 20 Obtained by the calculation, the calculated value of 0648> table is 0,447, then the decision to reject Ho and accept Ha. This means that there is a positive relationship between the perceptions of farmers with paddy farming income of applying ecological engineering (refugia) in the village of Karang Sari Subdistrict Belitang East Oku District III. KEY WORDSPerception, integrated pest control, ecological engineering, technology.Needs of rice in Indonesia have not decreased, but increases from year to year, along with the increase of population is. In order to increase food production of rice, the government is trying to boost paddy production in order to reach self-sufficiency. Many ways are used by the government to increase rice production in the country, mainly to do with the intensification (modern agriculture), among others, with new varieties, fertilizers, and chemical pesticides that can make the problem of pests and diseases is increasing and growing environmental degradation. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a way to control plant pests, which is based on a consideration of the ecological and economic efficiency environmentally sustainable agro-ecosystem management (Untung, 2007). Principles of Integrated pest management (IPM) is use for healthy plants, preservation of natural predators, weekly, and farmers as integrated pest control experts. One of the implemation integrated pest management principles preservation of natural enemies by providing habitat and provide food for natural enemies is the usual form of grasses, flowers, and other vegetation on the rice land habitat (Karindah, et.al, 2011).Various efforts with integrated pest management (IPM), which is more eco friendly have been carried out. According to Baehaki (2016), put forward any strategy other than the

Arthropods discovered on refugio flowering plants in Mangifera indica plantation

“…Exploration of the effect of vegetation manipulation in perennial crop systems shows that gardens with flowering shrubs have insects that provide ecological services, and their diversity is higher than gardens that are clean of plants (Ibrahim & Mugiasih 2020). Plant diversification provides spatiotemporal scale habitat heterogeneity for arthropods, changing the ability of insect herbivores and natural enemies to occupy the canopy, which is an important management strategy to improve insect biocontrol services for natural enemies (Arbi et al 2019;Wan et al 2019). Ecological engineering is carried out by modifying habitats using a polyculture cropping system that is easy to implement, including through inter-cropping, strip cropping, alley cropping, planting hedgerows, planting 'flower islands' or insectary plants in the middle of the planting area, and planting ground cover plants.…”