Preliminary Prediction of Rice Planting for Planting Season 2019, 2020, and 2021, Based Water Balance in Freshwater Swampland

• Main Authors: Mayasari Vika, Hairani Anna
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
• Series: BIO Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://www.bio-conferences.org/articles/bioconf/full_html/2020/04/bioconf_icweb2019_01004/bioconf_icweb2019_01004.html

Climate change that has occurred in recent years causes a shift at the beginning of rice planting. Rice crop failure due to flooding or drought is the main cause of the low Cropping Index in the freshwater swampland such as happened in Swampland Agro Science Park of Banjarbaru. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the preliminary prediction of the rice planting season for planting season (MT) 2019, 2020, and 2021 based on water balance. As for what can be analyzed was the rainfall data as input compared to evapotranspiration through the Hargreaves approach. Then the output obtained in the form of net rate which used to measure the amount of rain every year. M eanwhile, the water requirement for rice was calculated during the period of growth to harvest. After that, the water balance simulation was performed from the difference in water bubbles (net yield rate) with the water needs in the rice field. Based on this water balance simulation obtained that the beginning of rice planting for MT 2019 is May IV-June IV, MT 2020 is June I-July I, and MT 2021 is June II-July II.