Respon Beberapa Rumput Unggul pada Lahan Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit di Kelurahan Kenali Asam Atas Kecamatan Kota Baru Jambi

Abstract

The aim of this research is to know about response some superior grass that is groun up with gaps
in palm oil plants and compore in with superior grass that  groun up without gaps in oil palm plants. This
research  uses  three  kind  of  superior  grass.  They  are king  grass  (Pennisetum  purpupoides),  elephant  grass
(Pennisetum purpureum) and setaria grass (Setaria splendida). The method that is  used in this research is
descriptive statistics and than diversity trial done by using test t  to compore the result which is gotten with
gaps or  without gaps in palm oil plants (Steel and Torrrie, 1993). The research results shown that quantity
of smaller variant plants , high plants and forage dry matter production that groun up with gaps in palm oil
plants is not different clearly ( p > 0.05) with forage that is groun up without gaps in palm oil plants. Based
on research result, we can conclude that king grass, elephant grass and setaria grass growth which groun up
with gaps in palm oil is not different clearly with this plants that groun up without gaps in palm oil.