Abstract
Today, agriculture is not solely applied on plain areas but also has been expanded onto hilly areas. The understanding of SOM and soil nutrients is considered as a basis to achieve sustainable agriculture in hilly areas. The behavior of SOM and soil nutrients is very different between plain and hilly areas. The aims of this study are: (1) to analyze the specific behavior of SOM and soil nutrients in hilly areas, in order (2) to evaluate the effect of relief variation and of land uses towards those properties, and (3) to propose appropriate soil management practices in achieving sustainable agriculture in hilly areas. Field survey and laboratory analyses were conducted in this study. There were 11 soil sampling sites selected within four land use types in various relief. The results show that SOM and soil nutrients in cultivated land are lower than those in uncultivated land. There are significant differences of SOM and soil nutrient contents among the cultivated land. Mixed garden is proposed as the most appropriate land use applied in such study area, and thus it is applicable to gain the sustainable agriculture. With regards to relief variation, the intensive agricultural practices are required to be minimized, and the intercropping system is suggested for retarding the soil erosion problem.
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This paper is part of Ph.D. research of the first author. The authors are very grateful to OeAD for research funding. The authors thank J.Stötter and C.Geitner for their valuable comments and help during the research. We also thank to our colleagues in Department of Environmental Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada, for their support in conducting the field observation.
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Pulungan, N.A., Utami, S.N.H., Purwanto, B.H., Sartohadi, J. (2017). Analysis of SOM and Soil Nutrients for Sustainable Agriculture in Hilly Areas: Central Part of Bogowonto Catchment, Java, Indonesia. In: Isnansetyo, A., Nuringtyas, T. (eds) Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Tropical Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60363-6_19
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