Judul: The role of organic fertilizer to increase the effectivity of NPK fertilizer for oil palm seedling (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)
Abstrak: Oil palm has higher palm oil productivity than the others. So that, the precision plantation technology of oil palm cultivation must be done in order to preserve high productivity of oil palm. A seedling is the first step that affecting for oil palm’s age and productivity. Good growth will produce high quality and production of oil palm. The necessity of oil palm seedlings to intensify areal and replant would grow continuously, so it has needed to obtain precise fertilization. The objectives of this experiment were (1) to obtain the best organic-NPK fertilizer combination in increasing the effectiveness of the use of NPK fertilizer, (2) to study the role of organic fertilizer for the growth of oil palm seedling in main nursery, and (3) to investigate the efficiency of NPK fertilizer for best combination. The experiment was conducted from December 2011 to September 2012 at IPB Teaching Farm Dramaga Bogor. The layout was arranged in a factorial random block design with three replications. The first factor was volume ratio organic fertilizer to top soil i.e 0, 1:6, 2:6, and 3:6. The second was NPK Fertilizer rates i.e 0.0, 127.5, 255.0, and 382.5 g NPK.plant-1. Each of treatments have 5 plants, so that the numbers of sample were 240 plants. The result showed that combination of organic and NPK fertilizer significantly affected to plant height, leaf number, steam diameter, leaf area, and chlorophyll content. The interaction between organic and NPK fertilizer significantly affected to plant height at 8 Months After Transplanting (MAT)), leaf number (5-8 MAT), steam diameter (8 MAT), leaf area (3 MAT) and chlorophyll number (4 MAT). Organic fertilizer had increased the effectiveness of NPK fertilizer for oil palm seedlings, in this research the highest effective value was organic fertilizer 2:6 (organic fertilizer : top soil) and NPK 382.5 g plant-1 with the effective value was 179.38%. The only application of organic fertilizer 3:6 has showed oil palm seedling that no significant with NPK application from 127.5-382.5 g tanaman-1 without organic fertilizer. So that, organic fertilizer 3:6 could be substituted of NPK fertilizer. The best combination treatment was 2:6 and 382.5 NPK g plant-1 with effective value was 158.91%, 209.14% and 170.10% for plant height, leaf number and stem diameter, respectively. Organic fertilizer had increased the efficiency of NPK fertilizer with absorption rates of N, P and K was 56.16%, 11.06% and 29.90%.
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Judul: Optimasi Dosis Pupuk Majemuk NPK dan Kalsium pada Bibit Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) di Pembibitan Utama
Abstrak: Oil palm is the main estate crop that brought Indonesia as the main producer for palm oil in the world. Palm oil both crude palm oil (CPO) and kernel palm oil (KPO) have been broadening utilized by fractionation (edible oil), margarine, cosmetics, oleo-chemical and bio-diesel industries. The productivity of oil palm could be determined by the quality of seedling both genetically and physically. The production of oil palm seedling takes about 12-14 months through pre nursery (3-4 months) and main nursery (9-11 months). Fertilizer management had been necessary for oil palm seedling growth. Therefore, the accuracy fertilizer rate would be the main key to maintain the oil palm seedling growth physically as it would have produced the maximum growth of oil palm seedling. This research was aimed to evaluate rates of NPK compound and calcium fertilizer for the growth of oil palm seedling in main nursery. Other objectives were to know the interaction effect between NPK compound and calcium fertilizer and to produce the high qualified oil palm seedling. The experiment was conducted in IPB Experimental Station, Cikabayan, Darmaga, Bogor from December 2011 to November 2012. The two factor experiment was designed in a randomized block design with three replications. The rates of NPK compound fertilizer (15-15-15) were 0, 115, 230 and 460 g seedling-1. The rates of calcium fertilizer were 0, 5, 10 and 20 g seedling-1. In general, there was no interaction effect between NPK compound and calcium fertilizer on variables observed, except on plant height 3 Months after Application (MAA). NPK compound fertilizer had the significant quadratic effect on plant height, leaf number, stem diameter and chlorophyll content. But, it had the significant linear effect on plant height 5 MAA and stem diameter 3 MAA. The calcium fertilizer had the significant linear effect only on plant height 1 MAA and other variables were not affected by calcium fertilizer. The linear effect showed that the highest rate would still increase the seedling growth. The quadratic effect showed that the seedling growth would decrease by rate higher than the optimum rate. The oil palm seedling height of NPK compound rate 230 g seedling-1 on 8 MAA attained 85.48 % up to oil palm seedling standard for 12 months since pre nursery. Stem diameter and leaf number attained 106.92% and 65.56% respectively. Based on plant height and stem diameter, recommended rate of NPK compound fertilizer 15-15-15 was in the range of 333.00 g seedling-1 for eight months. Recommended rates for each month were 7.00, 7.00, 19.45, 59.25, 66.3, 61.55, 58.97 and 54.16 g NPK seedling-1. The optimum rate of calcium was not obtained from this experiment.
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Judul: Metrik Einstein (Anti-) Self-Dual Berdimensi Empat dengan Metode Cartan
Abstrak: Gravitational field equation can be formulated in differential forms (differential geometry), which describes gravity as a manifestation of the curvature of space-time. Curvature of space-time is characterized by a metric that satisfies the gravitational field equation. With differential forms it can be formulated the (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation, which is a modification of the Cartan structure in (anti-) self-dual basis. Calculation of (anti-) self-dual metric with (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation is simpler than the calculation using Christoffel symbols.
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