Adaptive Agricultural Practices and Land Use Cycles on Pyritic Sediments in South Kalimantan
Adaptive Agricultural Practices and Land Use Cycles on Pyritic Sediments in South Kalimantan
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南加里曼丹黄铁矿沉积物的适应性农业实践和土地利用循环
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1992
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B. Sumawinata
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B. Sumawinata
The reclamation of potential acid sulfate soils for agriculture involves the danger that pyritic minerals present in the soil will be oxidized and produce unfavorable conditions for plant growth. Pyritic minerals are oxidized when swamp is reclaimed by forest cutting, canal excavation, and destruction of the covering peat layer. In South Kalimantan, Banjarese people use an "adaptive" agricultural technique to cultivate rice and perennial crops on potential acid sulfate soils. Its characteristic features are as follows. (1) Drainage is kept to the minimum needed for the reclamation, so as to depress the oxidation of pyritic sediments. (2) The traditional method of swamp-land rice cultivation is employed. (3) The secondary Melaleuca forest is conserved by the shifting cultivation of rice cultivation with long-term planting and long-term fallowing periods. This paper presents details of the adaptive rice culture techniques and the cycle of land use in South Kalimantan. The chemical and geomorphic characters of the sediments will be presented in forth coming papers. I Introduction Indonesia has wide areas of coastal swamp that are flat and have good water supplies, and are therefore attractive for development as making paddy fields. Many of the sediments, however, were fonned in brackish water environments and contain high amounts of pyritic minerals, their maximum sulfur content reaching 4.7%. In the reduced state, they are not toxic for plants, but, when the stagnant water is drained from them by constructing canals for land reclamation, these pyritic sediments are oxidized and transfonned into acidic and toxic materials with high amounts of Al 3 +, Sol- and Fe 3 +, e.g., acid sulfate soils. Attempts have been made to improve acid sulfate soils by liming or by polder dyking to control water levels. But these are impractical because of the huge amounts of lime and costs are involved. The Banjarese people have developed an "adaptive" technique for rice cultivation as well as for upland crops on potential acid sulfate soils in the swampy areas of South Kalimantan. The characteristic features of the "adaptive" Banjarese agricultural technique are firstly, that drainage is kept to the minimum required for reclamation in order to maintain the plots in the reduced state for as long as possible. This is done by digging shallow drainage canals with simple water gates. Operation of the water gates enables ponding and draining of the rice fields. Secondly, since the