STUDY OF DOMINANT MAIN PEST AND DISEASE ON RICE FARMING IN PAPUA

• Main Author: Petrus A Beding
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Universitas Janabadra 2016-07-01
• Series: Jurnal Pertanian Agros
• Subjects: Rice; pests; Papua
• Online Access: http://e-journal.janabadra.ac.id/index.php/JA/article/view/91/68

The high number of pest and diseases in rice plants, often make it difficult for the target pest and disease priorities that need to be controlled. The accuracy of determining the target pest and disease is an important step because it will determine how to control accurately, thereby reducing cost . This study aims to: (a) determine the development of major pests and diseases in rice farming in Papua; (b) determine the dominance of major pests and diseases in rice farming Papua; and (c) determine the dominance of major pests and diseases in their respective districts in Papua. Studies implemented starting in May to October 2015. The study used secondary data from technical implementing unit of Food and Horticultural Plant Protection, Department of Agricultural Papua Province, for five years, from 2009 to 2014. Secondary data were analyzed by destructive method to answer the purposes of the study. The dominance of pests can be set based on extensive data attacks, and most comprehensive attack showed the dominance of major pests and diseases. The results showed that: (a) major pests and diseases (rice leafroller, pest winches rod, rat, and the brown spot disease, and blasts) are always found in rice farming in Papua; (b) for five years (2009 to 2014) fake white and blasts wide attacks continued to rise, broad attack brown spots and winches obtaining always fluctuated, while the area of the attack to blast disease seen down; and (c) the average over five years (2009 to 2014), fake white predominant in 5 districts (96% of total rice farming district locations in Papua)