Classification, physicochemical, soil fertility, and relationship to Coffee robusta yield in soil map unit selected

Abstract

The research was aimed to classify, characterize the physicochemical properties, determine the fertility of the soil, and to obtain the relationship of soil fertility on the character yield for Coffee robusta in the 10 units of the soil map (SMUs) selected. This research was conducted in Silima Pungga-Pungga sub-District, Dairi District, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia from July 2014 to June 2017. This research was conducted by overlay the maps, classifying soil profiles, characterizing soil, soil fertility assessing, and regression analysis of soil fertility with the yield for Coffee robusta using IBM SPSS Statistics v.20 software. The result showed the ten from 18 SMUs selected for Coffee robusta had the highest area in sequentially, namely SMU 11, 14, and 1. Based on the ten SMUs selected, found in two representative soil profiles, include the profile 1 (SMU 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18) covering an area of 1,703.30 ha with the inceptisol and profile 10 (SMU 10) covering an area of 176.81 ha with the entisol. Inceptisol has greater thesoil physicochemical properties compared to entisol from ten SMUs selected for Coffee robusta. The effect of cation exchange capacity, base saturation, P-total, K-total, and C-organic have significantly increased the productivity of Coffee robusta by 89.30%. However, the effect was not significant to the 100 grains of dry weight.