Innovations in healthy citrus garden management to reduce major pests and diseases and increase incomes of citrus farmers

¹ National Research and Innovation Agency, M.H Thamrin No. 8 Jakarta 10340, Indonesia
² Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology Bali, Bypass Ngurah Rai Pesanggaran- Denpasar, Bali 80222, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: dellyresiani67@gmail.com

Abstract

Healthy citrus garden management is an effort to optimize citrus yields. The research aims to suppress major pests and diseases and increase yields and incomes of citrus farmers. The research was conducted in Kintamani, Bali in January 2017-December 2020. The study was conducted in pairs in the form of 1 block of garden technology innovation treatment of healthy citrus gardens and 1 block of farmers' existing gardens. Plant samples per block were determined by purposive sampling. The results showed that the treatment had a significant effect on the abundance of fruit fly populations, diplodia infection, crop yields and farm income. There was a decrease in fruit fly population abundance and diplodia infection by 9.20 and 33.60%, the average citrus fruit yield was 23.71 t/ha. / year, there is an increase in citrus farming income by 97.19%/ha/year due to the innovation of healthy citrus gardens. Based on the calculation results, the R/C ratio and MBCR values were 1.96 and 2.55 for innovations with components of healthy citrus garden management. It is concluded that the technological innovation of healthy citrus gardens is feasible to be developed with the same type of agroecosystem.