Rubber agroforestry system in Indonesia: Past, present, and future practices

D.S Agustina,Fetrina Oktavia,Y Asih Purwestri,K Restu Susilo,A Dewi,P Montoro,S Subandiyah,I Yoga Prasada,G Wirakusuma,W Dyah Sawitri

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202130502005

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Journal: E3S Web of Conferences	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2021
Citations: 1	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Rubber Research Institute

Abstract

Indonesia is the second largest rubber producing country after Thailand. The area of rubber in 2018 was about 3.7 million hectares with the total production of 3.6 million tons. Among those areas, 88.13% were owned by smallholders, and the rest belongs to private estate (5.16%) and government estate (6.7%). Productivity is still become the problem at smallholders’ level. Some efforts have been conducted in order to improve the productivity of smallholders. The concept of agroforestry has become increasingly relevant in recent days as they introduced new commercial opportunities to smallholders. Agroforestry, with its multiple environmental and economic benefits, can help the agriculture and forestry sectors find innovative solutions to present-day problems: including low profitability, environmental impacts, and negative public perception This paper presents the implementation of rubber agroforestry system at the smallholders’ level since the past, current situation and future scenario for agroforestry in order to support the sustainability of rubber smallholders.

Highlights

Indonesia is the second largest rubber producing country in the world after Thailand
88.13% were owned by smallholders, and the rest belongs to private estate (5.16%) and government estate (6.7%) [1]
It is a complex agroforestry system with rubber and other trees planted at the same density as that as in rubber agroforestry systems (RAS) 2, but with no intercrops except in the forst year, followed by a combination of leguminous cover crops, and fast growing trees (FGT)

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Introduction

Indonesia is the second largest rubber producing country in the world after Thailand. South Sumatra is the largest rubber Province in Indonesia with the area of rubber was about 1.3 million ha in 2019 and the production almost 1,2 million ton [2]. Agribusiness of rubber is experiencing long unfavorable conditions This is due to the declining of rubber price in the last few years as well as increasing the cost of production especially the cost of tapping.

Agroforestry system in Indonesia

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