Sunday 10 March 2013

THREE DIMENSIONAL AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM AS FOREST REHABILITATION IN INDONESIA


SUMMARY

A lot of forest resources have been exploited excessively  without considering about its sustainability.  The condition of socio-economic in forest community  is one of  pressure factor to forest sustainability.  This is then be a problem, namely pressure of forest resources by forest local residents without followed by improving the welfare of those societies.  Fundamental issues on critical land is converting the land into a productive again by using optimally remaining land.  Therefore handling strategies on critical land is needs to be done through community-based approaches.       
Three dimensional agroforestry system is agroforestry technic that optimize the capability and suitability of land.  It’s  not only horizontal perspective (beside), but also vertical perspective (up-bottom).  The fact, in   Javanese wisdom, there is statement called “polo gumantung, polo kependem” .  Polo means planted crops , gumantung is hanging products and kependem means hidden underground.  So, the using of land can be gotten from the plants that is in trees and buried in the ground.  Horizontally, the land can be planted by cash crops and forest trees.  While vertically (up right) the land can be planted by epiphyte (orchids) and other climbing plant such as pepper, Huwi (Sundaness), vanilli and lianas.  In under ground direction, the land can be planted by tubers, such as cassava, tuber plants (potatoes, yam, sweet potatoes, etc).  In the development, three dimensional agroforestry will  give advantages to the ecological aspect and socio-economic aspects.

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