PROCEEDINGS INTERNATIONAL SEMIINAR : VEGETATION ANALYSIS OF BAMBOO IN THE HULU BANYU VILLAGE, LOKSADO, HULU SUNGAI SELATAN REGENC

Abstract

Bamboo plants could grow starts from the banks of the river, up into the mountains, so the bamboo that grow naturally or are planted in Loksado is one of the commodity which could open a kind of business with employment of people live there, which also increase incomes. But the magnitude potential of bamboo has not been known, neither bamboo species that grows on the banks of the river. On the other hand, the information about bamboo is very important in order to manage in a sustainable bamboo management. The research was held on the banks of the River of Amandit, District of Loksado, Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency. The data was taken by using terraced paths (nested sampling) with a size of 20 m x 500 m, in the path of created plots with the measurement about 20m x 20m. The data was taking in two lines. Analysis of the data is using the Important Value Index. Based on the research, it was found 4 (four) types of bamboo that is; Bamboo Banar/Rabungan (Gigantochloa psendianum linoceae), bamboo reed (Schizoseyum brchycladum Kurtz), Bamboo Tali (Gigantochloa lear), bamboo Tamiang (Schizoseyum blamei Ness). Index values are important for each type of bamboo which are, bamboo ridge (77.14), the bamboo haur (37.51), the bamboo rope (23.10), the bamboo reed (22.17) and sweet bamboo (23,52). The potential of bamboo on the location of the study, was found that there were 476 bamboo groves. Additional knowledge is required to cultivate bamboo in the study site so that it can be utilized in a sustainable way.