Introducing Paddy (Oriza sativa) in the Plantation Forest Management to Support Food Safety

Abstract There are plantation forest areas in Indonesia with large of 21.6 million ha, and 11.4 million ha other things are gone out to social forestry managementin the form of agroforestry system. The aim of this research was to create the value added and to know excellence of agroforestry system using paddy (Oriza sativa) mixed albisia (Albizia falcataria). Research was located at the plantation forest management in Balangan District, South Kalimantan. There are two plots for experiment, i.e. agroforestry plot and monocultur of albisia plot, where each plot was comprised 15 sub plots sized 10 m x 10 m (100 m2). Collecting data of albisia and paddy were conducted at the fisrt and second year. Research result show that, agroforestry system has excellence at the diameter growth of albizia at the second year caused by added organic manure that come from decomposed waste and straw of paddy on the land. It also produce rice namely 3.4 ton ha-1 at the first year and 3.1 ton ha-1 at the second year. This research result is hoped useful as a reference to support food safety in the form of agroforestry system on plantation forest management. Keywords: albisia, agroforestry, food safety, paddy