Prospect for the development of direct seed planting technology (Tabela) in Indonesia. This paper is a review that aims to reveal the development of technological innovations for direct seed rice cultivation (Tabela) and the prospects for its development in Indonesia. Rice is the main source of food, which cannot be substituted with other foodstuffs. The need for rice will continue to increase, along with the rate of increase in population growth every year. Therefore, the main program for agricultural development in periods 2015-2019 is to increase productivity and cropping indexes in all rice agro-ecosystems. The main problems in the current rice cultivation business today are; the need for labor is large, while the availability of labor in the agricultural sector is decreasing, farm labor wages and the price of production facilities are getting more expensive, the area of rice fields is decreasing, the availability of water is increasingly limited. Direct seed cultivation of jajar legowo is one of the solutions for lowland rice farming that can solve the problem of labor shortages in the production process of rice cultivation. Supporting technology in Tabela rice cultivation is quite available including superior varieties, seed technology, biological fertilizers, fertilization, weed control, water management, pest and disease control, and planting tools. Tabela technology has the prospect to be widely developed in Indonesia because it is suitable for irrigated and rain fed rice fields, harvest faster, increases production, is more labor efficient, easy and practical to implement.

The purpose of the study is to obtain packages of chili pepper cultivation technology to support the increasing productivity of chili pepper in South Sulawesi. The study was held in Lengkese village, Mangarabombang District, Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, from April to August 2019. The experimental design used Randomized Block Design, with three replications and five treatments: A = Maruti variety, closed nursery, black silver plastic mulch (BSPM), plant distancing 75 cm × 60 cm, a dosage of solid organic fertilizer 20 tons/ha, and 180 N, P, K kg/ha of inorganic fertilizers; B = Maruti variety, closed nursery, BSPM, plant distancing 75 cm × 60 cm, a dosage of solid organic fertilizer 10 tons/ha and 135 N, P, K kg/ha of inorganic fertilizers; C = Maruti variety, closed nursery, BSPM, plant distancing 75 cm × 40 cm, a dosage of solid organic fertilizer 10 tons/ha and 180 N, P, K kg/ha of inorganic fertilizers; D = Maruti variety, closed nursery, BSPM, plant distancing 75 cm × 40 cm, a dosage of solid organic fertilizer 20 tons/ha and 135 N, P, K kg/ha of inorganic fertilizers; and E= Maruti variety, open nursery, plant distancing 75 cm × 30 cm and dosage of inorganic fertilizers 127 N, 60 P, 60 K kg/ha. The results were showed that C treatment used the technology packages: Maruti variety, closed nursery, BSPM, plant distancing 75 cm × 40 cm, a dosage of solid organic fertilizer 10 tons/ha, and 180 N, P, K kg/ha of inorganic fertilizers produced more chili pepper weights per plant. The height of A and D treatment was significantly different from E treatment and resulted in the highest production of chili pepper, 14.97 tons/ha. Organisms such as Myzus persicae, fruit flies, Fusarium wilt disease, and anthracnose were found in low infestation rates. The technology packages can use to support the increasing production of chili pepper in South Sulawesi.

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Shallot is one of the agricultural commodities whose production needs to be increased in the national food security program framework. One effort to increase yield is by conducting cultivation techniques including, fertilization. The study was objective at determining the dose of complementary liquid fertilizers (LCF) and interval application time and their interactions to increase the growth and yield of shallots. The study was conducted in Lampoko Village, Barebbo District, Bone Regency, in April-June 2018. The experiment used a factorial randomized block design with two factors. The first factor was the CLF dose at three levels (1,0, 2,0, and 3,0 ml L−1) and the second factor was an interval of application time at three levels (every 5,7, and 9 days). The results showed that the treatment of CLF dose significantly affected plant height and number of leaves. The treatment of the interval of application time significantly involves the number of bulbs, bulbs’ diameter, fresh bulbs weight, and dry bulbs weight. In general, the best growth and production of shallots were obtained in the treatment of LCF with a dose of 2,0 ml L−1 at an interval of 5 days for once application.