Prospek Pengembangan Pala (Myristica fragrans Houtt) di Hutan Rakyat

  • Fauziyah E
  • Kuswantoro D
  • Sanudin S
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Abstract

Hutan rakyat sebagian besar dikelola secara agroforestri. Salah satu jenis tanaman yang banyak dikembangkan di hutan rakyat adalah pala (Myristica fragrans). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prospek pengembangan pala di lahan hutan rakyat. Penelitian dilakukan di Desa Kemawi, Kecamatan Somagede, Kabupaten Banyumas, Jawa Tengah pada bulan Juni sampai dengan Juli 2012. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui penelusuran data sekunder, wawancara terbuka dan mendalam. Narasumber dipilih secara sengaja (purposive sampling) yaitu petani yang menanam pala di lahannya sebanyak 20 orang. Data yang diperoleh kemudian diolah dan dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pala memiliki prospek yang baik sebagai salah satu jenis tanaman untuk pengembangan hutan rakyat di Desa Kemawi karena terdapat faktor-faktor yang mendukung pengembangannya yaitu :1) lahan secara bio fisik sesuai untuk pertumbuhan tanaman pala, 2) secara sosial dapat diterima oleh masyarakat karena jauh sebelumnya sudah banyak petani yang membudidayakan pala di lahannya 3) secara ekonomi memiliki harga yang cukup tinggi dan stabil sehingga memberikan tambahan pendapatan, 4) kondisi pemasaran baik buah maupun bibitnya sangat mudah, dan 5) perhatian pemerintah terhadap pengembangan pala pada tingkat produksi hingga pengolahan pasca panen cukup besar yang telihat dari adanya beberapa program yang berkaitan dengan pengembangan tanaman pala di wilayah ini.Kata kunci: pala, hutan rakyat, prospek, Desa Kemawi, agroforestri. Development prospect of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt) in the community forest AbstractThe private forest is largely managed with agroforestry pattern. Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is a plant that has been developed in the private forest. This study aimed to determine the prospect of nutmeg in the private forest. This research was conducted in the Kemawi village, Somagede Subdistrict of Banyumas District, Central Java Province in June to July 2012. Data were collected through secondary data study, open and in-depth interviews. Twenty farmers who planted nutmeg were selected with purposive sampling technique. The obtained data were processed and analyzed descriptively. The results showed that nutmeg had a good prospect as one of the plantation species for private forest development in Kemawi village because of these several factors: 1) Kemawi land was biophysically suitable for nutmeg plantation, 2) socially, many farmers had been planting nutmeg in their land, 3) economically, nutmeg had a good and stable price that can provide additional income, 4) marketing of both fruit and seed of nutmeg were very easy, and 5) there were good attentions from the government to the nutmeg development program from production to post-harvesting process.

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Fauziyah, E., Kuswantoro, D. P., & Sanudin, S. (2016). Prospek Pengembangan Pala (Myristica fragrans Houtt) di Hutan Rakyat. Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan, 9(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.22146/jik.10182

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