Improving the Climate Resilience of Rice Farming in Flood-Prone Areas through Azolla Biofertilizer and Saline-Tolerant Varieties

Tualar Simarmata, Muhamad Khais Prayoga, Mieke R. Setiawati, Kustiwa Adinata and Silke Stöber
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Tualar Simarmata: Department of Soil Sciences and Land Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung 45363, Indonesia
Muhamad Khais Prayoga: Research Institute for Tea and Cinchona, Bandung 45363, Indonesia
Mieke R. Setiawati: Department of Soil Sciences and Land Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung 45363, Indonesia
Kustiwa Adinata: Indonesian Farmers Community Network (JAMTANI), Pangandaran 46396, Indonesia
Silke Stöber: Centre for Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-9

Abstract: Rice farming in coastal areas is often victim to flooding as a result of climate change. Low-cost adaptation strategies are required to increase resilience and rice productivity in these flood-prone coastal areas. In this study, enriched Azolla extract (EAE) liquid biofertilizers, combined with selected stress-tolerant rice varieties, were tested in farmers’ fields in Pangandaran, West Java from June to October 2020. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of EAE in increasing the yield of different rice varieties. The research was arranged as a split-plot design with five replications. The main plot was the EAE application (T1 = 3 ton ha −1 compost and T2 = 3 ton ha −1 compost + 10 L ha −1 of EAE), and the sub-plots were stress-tolerant rice varieties (V1 = Inpari 43, V2 = Mawar, V3 = Inpari 30, V4 = Inpara 03, V5 = Mendawak). The application of EAE of 10 L ha −1 significantly affected the rice grain yield, which was 37.06% higher than that of the control plot. The average grain yield of the five varieties under EAE treatment (5.51 ton ha −1 ) was greater than the grain yield of local farmers’ fields (3.78−4.97 ton ha −1 ). Inpari 43 had the highest grain yield with 5.90 ton ha −1 , but the yield was not significantly different from the Mendawak variety (4.90 ton ha −1 ). This result suggests that EAE and selected stress-tolerant rice varieties (Inpari 43 or Mendawak) are an effective adaptation strategy to increase rice farms’ resilience and productivity in coastal areas prone to flooding.

Keywords: enriched Azolla extract (EAE); liquid biofertilizer; saline-tolerant varieties; rice farming; flood; coastal area; climate change; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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