Laboratory of Agronomy

Laboratory of Agronomy functions to provide services such as practice, research, community service, research analysis, and production. The main supporting facilities for practice, research, and training activities in the field is experiment and production areas at Tegalgondo Village of 1 Ha and at Pendem Village of 4 Ha, and apple garden of 1 ha at Sumbergodo Village, Bumiaji District, Batu City.

 
Laboratory of Agronomy has developed to be several laboratories which supported the activities of practice, research, production, workshop, training, and analysis. They are:
 

Laboratory of Climatology

Laboratory of Climatology is located atExperiment Farm of Agriculture UMM as a means for activities of practice, research, and providing climate data. Laboratory of Climatology is a Climatology Station and it has been completed with Weather Station, that is weather observation tools (solar radiation, intensity, temperature, wind, rain, humidity, evapotranspiration) which operate with computer system. The data analysis is conducted with computer and the data can be sent via internet, and the link with international weather station system. This laboratory is also completed with devices for observing micro weather arround the cultivation area.

Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Breeding and Seed Technology

Laboratory of Genetics, Plant Breeding and Seed Technology is a laboratory for activities of practice and research in the field of genetics, plant breeding, and seed technology and a means for activity of producing superior seeds. This laboratory is completed with tools for activities of mutation of chromosome duplicate, plants hybridization, germination analysis, seed testing, identification of seed pest, seed certification and seed storage, and testing the chromosome of plants.
 

Laboratory of Crop Protection

Laboratory of Crop Protection carries out practice, research, service on identification and analysis of pest and service the community in the form of workshop or training on controlling pest (Agriculture Clinic). Laboratory of Crop Protection is completed with equipments for observing pest and plant disease and sprayer machine for controlling the pest and plant disease. This laboratory also provides various kinds of biological pesticides product or antagonist microbe.

 

Laboratory of Soil

Laboratory of Soil conducts practice, research, and service of nutrient analysis and soil test. The equipments in this laboratory are practice tools for the basic soil science and soil fertility, the tools for analyzing physics, chemistry, and biology of soil. This laboratory also develops and produces biofertilizer and decomposer microbe (microbe to accelerate decomposition/fermentation of organic substances on the process of making organic fertilizer).

 
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