Abstract
Beekeeping is one of the alternative businesses that can be developed without converting the existing land use. Deveoping the business of beekeeping should consider the biophysically suitable area for bees themselves and also for the bee forage availability. The objective of this study was to provide the direction of development area for beekeeping. The methods used consist ofa combination of remote sensing, geographic information system, and analytical hierarchy process. The recommended area for beekeeping in Sukabumi regency consists of two areas: forest and dry land agriculture area. The protected area has two priorities: The first priority area for beekeeping is 3,335.52 ha (6.4%), while second priority is 48,415.22 ha (93.6%) that covered 14 sub-districts. The cultivation area has three priorities: First priority area is 1,163.92 ha, second priorityarea is 6,044.98 ha, and third priority area is 2,651.21 ha that covered 9 sub-districts. Based on result of analysis with the existing beekeeping in Sukabumi regency, local government of Sukabumi regency or local farmer could develop program for beekeeping in such as sub district: Cibadak, Cicurug, Cidahu, Ciemas, Cikidang, Ciracap, Cisolok, Kabandungan, Kadudampit, Kalapanunggal, Nagrak, Pelabuhan Ratu, Sukabumi, Sukaraja, Jampang Kulon, Pabuaran, Sagaranten, Surade, and Tegalbuleud.
Highlights
The increase of Indonesian population is considerably rapid
Land use and land cover map was provided by Ministry of Forestry and satellite imagery (Landsat 8) was downloaded from USGS at acquisition date of 17 February 2014 path 122 row 65
When applied to spatial analysis, the result indicate that according to land use and land cover criteria, the most suitable land for beekeeping is 107,391.6 ha (26%), the moderately suitable occupy 268,391.3 ha (64%), while the not suitable area according to land use and land cover was 40,417.1 ha (10%). These results indicate that generally, land use and land cover in Sukabumi Regency are suitable for beekeeping a) Land cover b) Elevation c) Temperature 172 d) Rainfall e) Distance to the river f) Distance to the road
Summary
The increase of Indonesian population is considerably rapid. In the year 2010, the population was 237 million people, which increased to become 254.9 million people in the year 2015 (BPS, 2016). Population increase creates many impacts, such as the need formore space, either for living, working and food supply Such additional needs will have effect on land conversion, including conversion offorest to other land utilization type (Simorangkir, 2006). Negative impacts such as flood, erosion, drought and other natural disasters could occur when the forest conversion could not be limited, because forest has an important function in ecological preservation. Minimizing such forest conversion is important (FAO, 2011). Under this condition, increasing the value of existing forestbecomes imperative
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