Open AccessDevelopment of contemporary pepper crop (Piper nigrum L.) in West Lampung Regency, Indonesia
Author(s) -
Eri Addharu,
Baba Barus,
Rilus A. Kinseng,
Diar Shiddiq
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/974/1/012055
Subject(s) - pepper , agriculture , geography , crop , agricultural science , business , agricultural economics , horticulture , forestry , environmental science , economics , biology , archaeology
Pepper crop has been developed and established in the West Lampung Regency. In line with contemporary agriculture’s with a tendency for standardized management supported by modern communication technology, the current agriculture practice should adopt the situation. In preparation, we need to develop a center of pepper development area through spatial planning. Several factors in developing the main region are actual dominant pepper crops, land suitability, current spatial planning, socio-economy of farmers, communication infrastructure, others that are evaluated using spatial multi-criteria approach. The result showed the potential area as a central area of pepper development, with some prerequisites of development of better agriculture practice for precision farming, and the improvement of farmer using a current mobile phone to access good agricultural practices and the potential market.