The Effect of Crop Plants Vertical Structure On Aesthetic Quality of Agricultural Landscape

Abstract

Agrotourism become one of government attention especially concerned to ·Visit Indonesia Year" government programme. Various agricultural commodity was effort, especially fruits and vegetables, to increase the visiting to the agrotourism object. Yet, the commodity is not enough to impress the visitor. The commodity structuring in spread out can effect the visitor memorability on site. The agricultural commodity has different kind of structure vertically. Good structuring practice can be shown in energy efficient, production and aesthetic that will support the memorability. Therefore, the study was done to analyze agricultural landscape aesthetic quality with various vertical, structure of agriculture's commodity. This research utilized experimental method with combining various agricultural commodity stands through computerized simulation, the aesthetic quality was measured with Scenic Beauty Estimation (SBE) method. The main parameter is agricultural commodity height level; consist four variable; lowest, lower, upper, highest. The measurement was done for good agricultural landscape whether with single commodity or composite commodity. The control landscape is the landscape with open field without plant commodity. The research found that the agricultural landscape aesthetic quality was affected by the commodity vertical structure. Agriculture landscape with single commodity show the highest point (SBE =136) for the lowest level and the control landscape without plant show the lowest aesthetic quality. Openness is the key point of the high agricultural landscape aesthetic quality that usually surrounded by mountain and hill so the plant can be foreground from the back view. The agriculture Landscape with the combining of the vertical structure show various aesthetic quality according to combination of plant commodity.