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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 305, 2021
RUBIS International Workshop on the Resilience of Rubber-based Agroforestry Systems in the Context of Global Change
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Article Number | 07001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Keynote and Invited Speaker | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130507001 | |
Published online | 23 September 2021 |
Development of Shading Tolerant Rice Varieties Suitable for Intercropping Cultivation in Agroforestry Systems
Indonesian Center for Rice Research, Jalan Raya 9 Sukamandi, Subang, West Java, Indonesia
* Corresponding author: a.hairmansis@gmail.com
The Indonesian government continuously strives to increase rice production in an effort to meet the staple food needs of almost 270 million people and to turn Indonesia to become a rice exporter country. One of the strategic efforts is to expand the planted area of rice outside irrigated rice areas. Upland is one of the potential areas that continues to be developed to support the increase of national rice production. While upland is not an ideal ecosystem for rice plants to grow, the opportunity to produce rice in this ecosystem is promising, especially using rice as an intercropping in plantation. This effort requires the availability of adaptive varieties to low light intensity conditions. The breeding program to develop shade-tolerant rice varieties has been carried out by the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) through the conventional breeding program. Breeding populations were produced by crossing local varieties, national leading varieties and introduced varieties. The selection of shading adaptive lines was carried out using both artificial shading and natural shading in the target plantation areas. New shade tolerant rice varieties have been recently released, namely Rindang 1 Agritan and Rindang 2 Agritan which have the potential to be utilized by farmers for intercropping rice cultivation in the agroforestry systems.
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