Land characteristics and land evaluation for development of the area of other uses (APL) in Siempat Rube Sub District Pakpak Bharat District

The opening of a new area needs to be investigated so that its land resources can be used to determine land suitability for certain uses so that the area of other uses (APL) in Siempat Rube Sub-district needs to be supported with information on land suitability. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of APL land suitability level and analyse improvement efforts to increase productivity on APL in Siempat Rube District. The research was used the survey method. Units of land were based on land maps. The research data were analysed using the matching method. Soil characteristics in Siempat Rube Sub district, both physical and chemical, have very diverse characteristics which can be a limiting or supporting factor in the development of agricultural crops, especially the development of irrigated rice fields. The actual land suitability for paddy fields were not suitable (N) (2629.44 ha) and marginally suitable (S3) (638.26 ha). After efforts to improve the level of potential land suitability for paddy to become not suitable (N) covering an area of 29.31 ha and marginally suitable (S3) covering an area of 3238.39 ha.

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