High Yielding Coconut of Nui Sua Tall from Sula Islands, North Maluku

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10.2991/aer.k.200325.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

coconut, character, superiority, production, seednut

Abstract

The superior coconut seednuts resources is one main problem to develop coconut programs in Indonesia, include North Maluku. Sula Islands Regency is one of the largest coconut distribution areas in North Maluku Province, Indonesia. The purpose of this research was to study the character, production potential and superiority of coconut from the Sula Islands Regency as a material for coconut development in North Maluku. Research activities carried out in the Naflou village, East Mangoli, Sula Islands Regency, North Maluku Province from 2017 to 2019 by the observation method. Observations were made on the morphological character, production and fruit components, oil content of copra, superiority and stability of coconut and the potential of seednuts. The result of observation showed that Nui Sua coconut is categorized as Tall type and has high productivity and adaptive advantage in limited rainfall and dry months for more than three months (5–9 months). Copra production of Nui Sua Tall coconut is 3.0–4.0 tons per ha per year with a copra oil content of 61.42%. Potential seednuts are available as many as 30,400 nuts per year from 317 Mother palms.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meity Tulalo
AU  - Sukmawati Mawardi
AU  - Hengky Novarianto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/30
TI  - High Yielding Coconut of Nui Sua Tall from Sula Islands, North Maluku
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANRes 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 94
EP  - 98
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.200325.019
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.200325.019
ID  - Tulalo2020
ER  -