Kajian Penggunaan Pompa Irigasi untuk Pertanian di Desa Babakan Raden, Kecamatan Cariu, Kabupaten Bogor.

Abstract

One of the main problems that occur in irrigation supply is the increasing water scarcity at certain times. Actually the water is still available in the basin, it's just necessary some efforts to supply the irrigation needs. Actually the water can be raised by using water pump. If agriculture only depends on surface water and rainfall, it will not be able to increase the productivity of land because the crop water requirement is not fulfilled in some periods. The purpose of this study are determining the irrigation water pricing and finding out profitable irrigated farming. Irrigation water requirement is calculated with CROPWAT 8.0 software by using climate and rainfall conditions as input parameters, and engineering economy is used to calculate irrigation water pricing. The result shows that existence of the pump for lifting up the water to agricultural land could help farmers in increasing cropping intensity and farmers income because the farmers could plant three times a year with cropping pattern rice-rice-secondary crops or rice-rice-vegetables. The most profitable cropping pattern is rice-rice-vegetable because vegetables income is the highest among secondary crops. For sustainable farming, irrigation water cost have to based on irrigation water pricing.