Development of contemporary pepper crop (Piper nigrum L.) in West Lampung Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Pepper crop has been developed and established in the West Lampung Regency. In line with contemporary agriculture's with a tendency for standardized management supported by modern communication technology, the current agriculture practice should adopt the situation. In preparation, we need to develop a center of pepper development area through spatial planning. Several factors in developing the main region are actual dominant pepper crops, land suitability, current spatial planning, socio-economy of farmers, communication infrastructure, others that are evaluated using spatial multi-criteria approach. The result showed the potential area as a central area of pepper development, with some prerequisites of development of better agriculture practice for precision farming, and the improvement of farmer using a current mobile phone to access good agricultural practices and the potential market.