For the umpteenth time UPY made an innovation that has been through research and has been practiced, namely cultivating rice planting with the Salibu system.
This was done by the Faculty of Agriculture of PGRI Yogyakarta University in the rice fields of a group of farmers in the Keloran area, Tamantirto, Kasihan, Bantul. Rice cultivation with the Salibu system is a modification of the Ratoon rice cultivation system that has been developed in several regions in Indonesia.
With the Salibu system, it can produce grain production of about 60% of the yield of the parent plant. This was conveyed to bernasnews by the rector of UPY Dr.Ir.Paiman, M.P during the Salibu System rice harvest in the Keloran village rice field area on Saturday (1/5/2024).
The first harvest of the Salibu rice cultivation system was carried out by UPY Rector Paiman, Chairman of the PGRI Supervisory Foundation Armansyah Prasakti, S.H., S.Pn., M.H, Panewu Kapanewon Kasihan Subarta, S.Sos., M.Si, witnessed by the Kasihan Agricultural Training Center, accompanying lecturers, UPY agriculture faculty students and Keloran hamlet farmer groups.
Before conducting the harvest, Rector Paiman said that this cultivation was developed in order to increase the economic level of the farmers because rice crops carried out with the usual system in one year can only be harvested 3 times but with this Salibu system the farmers can harvest 4 times a year.
“This Salibu system not only reduces costs and labor in maintenance but will also produce more rice harvests,” said Paiman, Saturday (1/6/2024).
“After the rice plants are harvested, farmers do not need to cultivate the land again with Mluku and plant new trees again, but simply cut the remaining rice stems approximately 2.5 to 3 cm from the ground surface so that new rice stem shoots will grow again, and this system can be done for 3 harvests and after 3 times it is replaced with new rice planting,” he added.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the PGRI Foundation Armansyah said that the Foundation supports all good and positive activities because this is also to promote the UPY Faculty of Agriculture to the public and the government that UPY can also provide something useful for the government and society with the results of this Silabu system research.
“Our hope from the Foundation is that the results of this Silabu system cultivation research can be useful for a broad business and can improve the lives and economy of farmers”, said Armansyah.
“For research and community service carried out every year from students or lecturers as well as to send lecturers to school, we are ready to help with the budget, as this year we increased the budget for this by 2 (two) billion which is more than the previous years which were less than 1 billion”, he concluded.