ASPECTS OF MACHINE TOOLS AND AGRICULTURAL CULTIVATION IN

SUGAR CANE PLANTATIONS PT MADU BARU YOGYAKARTA

Riyadi Hari Nugraha

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Technology,

Bogor Agricultural University, IPB Darmaga Campus, PO Box 220, Bogor, West

Java,

Indonesia.

Phone 08567539655, e-mail: maen_ball@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

In general, the sugar plantation owned sugar factories are Indonesia,

agricultural mechanization is applied on the preparation and watering the soil only.

Processing of land divided into 2 kinds of primary tillage and secondary tillage. The

tools used in primary tillage is the disk plow and secondary tillage is to disk harrow

and furrower while watering the soil using water pumps. In primary tillage plowing

done as much as 2 times, the plow I and II, while the secondary tillage activities

carried out are penggaruan, kairan and gutter making. At penggaruan tool used is

disk harrow while kairan and gutter making use furrower. For the another

cultivation process, such as planting, crop maintenance, and harvesting are still

using the manual method of using human . Sugarcane cultivation process is still

manual, the tools commonly used is a machete, sickle and hoe.

Pada umumnya di perkebunan tebu milik pabrik-pabrik gula yang ada indonesia,

mekanisasi pertanian baru diterapkan pada proses pengolahan dan penyiraman tanah

saja. Pengolahan tanah dibagi menjadi 2 macam, yaitu pengolahan tanah primer dan

pengolahan tanah sekunder. Alat yang digunakan pada pengolahan tanah primer

adalah bajak piring dan pengolahan tanah sekunder adalah garu piring dan furrower

sedangkan penyiraman tanah menggunakan pompa air. Pada pengolahan tanah

primer pembajakan dilakukan sebanyak 2 kali, yaitu bajak I dan II sedangkan

pengolahan tanah sekunder kegiatan-kegiatan yang dilakukan adalah penggaruan,

proses kairan dan pembuatan got. Pada saat penggaruan alat yang digunakan adalah

garu piring sedangkan proses kairan dan pembuatan got menggunakan furrower.

Untuk proses budidaya lainnya seperti penanaman, pemeliharaan tanaman, dan

pemanenan masih menggunakan cara manual yaitu menggunakan tenaga manusia.

Proses budidaya tebu yang masih manual, alat-alat yang biasa digunakan adalah

parang, golok, arit.

In general, the sugar plantation owned sugar factories are Indonesia, agricultural

mechanization is applied on the preparation and watering the soil only. Processing of

land divided into 2 kinds of primary tillage and secondary tillage. The tools used in

primary tillage is the disk plow and secondary tillage is to disk harrow and furrower

while watering the soil using water pumps. In primary tillage plowing done as much

as 2 times, the plow I and II, while the secondary tillage activities carried out are

penggaruan, pengkairan and gutter making. At penggaruan tool used is disk harrow

while kairan and gutter making use furrower. For the another cultivation process,

such as planting, crop maintenance, and harvesting are still using the manual method

of using human . Sugarcane cultivation process is still manual, the tools commonly

used is a machete, machetes, sickles.