Land Suitability Analysis for Tropical Fruit Commodities as a Conservation Effort in Highlands Area, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to spatially analyze the suitability and availability of land for annual tropical fruit horticultural commodities using the criterion-weighted method. The highlands of Banjarnegara and Wonosobo Regencies, Central Java Province, Indonesia, with a total area of 93,955.60 hectares was used as the study area. The multi-criteria decision-making analysis with an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) structure was used to determine the important criteria for complex land suitability. The criteria consisted of soil great groups, elevation, land slope, rainfall, temperature, humidity, type of land use, distance to market, and road access. Meanwhile, the weight of the importance of each criterion was based on the opinions of seven experts and the results were integrated as the basis for map overlays using ArcGIS ver 10.8. The calculation of pairwise comparisons showed that the soil great groups have the highest weight in determining land suitability, with the majority of land being hapludands. Furthermore, it also showed that 32.81% of the area is suitable and available for the development of fruit areas with the largest proportion of 17.48% in the moderately suitable (S2) category.