Study of Biomass Management Systems for Agricultural Lands without Fuel and Friendly Environment in West Kalimantan

Abstract

Almost every year in the dry season in West Kalimantan and other regions in Indonesia there are forest and land fires. The prolonged impact of El Nino has resulted in hundreds of thousands of hectares of land being burnt Human health, destruction of plant and animal genetic resources, and huge economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary to open and manage land without burning and environmentally friendly. These methods include the biomanagement system, namely the management of land resources by utilizing biodecomposers and human resource management by engineering institutions. Management of land resources by making a pile of grooves and decomposing biomass. This method in clearing and processing without burning the land but by arranging the trunks, branches and leaves of the remaining felling trees (biomass) into the trenches and then the biomass is decay using decomposers. The land can then be processed and ready to be planted with agricultural commodities such as rice, corn, soybeans, vegetables, and others. Human resource management by engineering institutions such as farmer groups or farmer group combinations, fire care communities and fire prepared communities play an active role in land clearing and land management without burning biomass. The results of the study showed that clearing paddy fields without burning biomass produced 5.7 tons of dry milled unhulled rice ha−1 and 5.8 t ha−1 of dry shelled corn.