Land conditions in the upper Citarum watershed have been increasingly critical in recent times, causing various problems, especially the high erosion that is considered one of the factors causing river sedimentation and triggering flood. Agroforestry has provided a positive impact on the soil conservation aspect. The dense and critical land in the Upper Citarum watershed has been converted to agroforestry in the last decades. This study aims to estimate the rate of soil erosion of different agroforestry land systems at the Upper Citarum watershed using the MUSLE model. The results show that the surface runoff and soil erosion in forest-based agroforestry systems with intercropping patterns is lower than in farm-based agroforestry.
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