The Potency of Coffea liberica to Remediate Peat Soil After Fires In The Musi-Belida Peat Hydrological Unity, Indonesia

Abstract

If not conserved, burned peatlands will significantly affect the succession or development of populations and vegetation composition on peat. It will also be disturbed to reduce biodiversity, causing damage to the hydrological cycle on the land. The rehabilitation of land by replanting repairs on peatlands after burning. Coffea liberica is one type of plantation crop that can be grown in efforts to restore burned peatlands, which can grow and produce well on peatlands so that it has the potential to be the region's flagship commodity. The research method used is a survey in the peat of the Musi-Belida peat hydrological unity, Indonesia. Sampling point sampling is determined with a purposive random sampling approach where the location is divided based on former fire land and bushland (natural). The incidence of fires on peatlands has an increasing influence on chemical characteristics (Ash Levels, C-Organic, CEC, PH, and exch_Al), which then supports the increase in the chemical elements of peat soil. The distance of canals/channels do not affect the chemical properties of peat soils affected by fire events.