Pengaruh Pemberian Blast Furnace Slag, Electric Furnace Slag, Dolomit dan Silica Gel terhadap Sifat Kimia Tanah Gambut Dalam dari Desa Arang-Arang Jambi
Abstract
Peat soil is soil having layers consisting high of organic materials (C-Organic > 18 %) whitin the thickness 50 cm or more. Organic materials of peat soil is formed by remnamt of decaying plants that have not been smashed perfecly because saturated water environmental conditions and low nutrient. Utilization of peat soil in agriculture is faced to several problems, especially chemical characteristic of the soil that is not supporting the growth of plants well. The characteristics are soil reaction which extremely acid, low base sarutation, very high cation exchange capacity and low nutrient balancing. Consequently, it is required improvements in chemical characteristic of soil such as application like steel slag. This research was purposed to investigate the effect of blast furnace slag (BF slag), electric furnace slag (EF slag), dolomite, and silica gel on chemical soil properties of peat soil and the availability of toxic heavy metal in the soil. This research was conducted by incubation experiment in laboratory using peat soil from Kumpeh, Jambi. Treatments applied were EF slag, BF slag 0 %, 2 %, 4 %, 6 %, and 8 %; dolomite and silica gel equivalent to EF slag 0 %, 2 %, 4 %, 6 %, and 8 %. The experimental design used was completely randomized design (CRD). The result of statistic analysis showed that BF slag, EF slag and dolomite significantly increased soil pH, and available Ca and Mg in the soil. The effect of treatments on available K and total N were not significant. EF and BF slag significantly increased available P in the soil, but dolomite and silica gel did not. EF slag treatment significantly increased available Fe in the soil, but BF slag, silica gel and dolomite did not. Dolomite and silica gel did not increase available Mn in the soil, but EF and BF slags significantly increased. Result of available Cu analysis indicated that among treatments only silica gel 8% increased available Cu in soil. EF slag and silica gel treatments increased Zn in the soil, but BF slag and dolomite treatment did not. EF and BF slags significantly increased available SiO2 in the soil, while dolomite and silica gel did not. The result of the heavy metal analysis showed that all treatments significantly reduced available Pb and Cr in the soil, but did not reduce available Cd and Hg in the soil.