IV. AREA OF STUDY
4.1. The Study Sites
4.1.1. Physical Characteristics
The two case study villages Senamat and Muara Kuamang are located in Muara Bungo district Jambi province. Jambi which happens to be the provincial
capital is 300 km’s away from them. Topographically the province is characterized by uplands with gently undulating to steep landscape with the altitude ranging from 100
to 500 m above sea level. Jambi experiences, on average, 7-9 wet months 200 mm rainfall and less than 2 dry months 100 mm rainfall per year, with annual rainfall in
the range of 2100-3000 mm and with the average annual temperature of about 26.8° C.
Muara Bungo is geographically located between 101 27’ to 102
30’ East longitude and between 01
08’ to 01 55’ South Latitude. Muara Bungo district
borders Tebo district and Dharmasraya district in the north, Merangin district in the south and Tebo district again in the East, Darmasraya and Kerinci district in the west
with the total land of 371.72 km
2
5.19 of the total area Table 10. The study area contains transmigration sites, rubber plantations, timber
plantations, oil palm plantations, and tree-crop plantations. After the introduction of rubber at the start of the 20
th
century, farmers had an extra incentive to settle near rivers to transport rubber to the markets. Rubber trees were both cultivated by
smallholders and large holders.
According to th selected i.e. Muara K
and Senamat village terms of proximity, Se
to Muara Kuamang. Fi specific areas of stud
alongside rubber mon study.
Source: ICRAF Land
Figure 3. Geographic
g to the figure 3, two villages from Muara Bungo ara Kuamang representing smallholder rubber ag
illage representing the smallholder rubber monoc ity, Senamat is closer to the trading centre Muara
ng. Figures 3 also shows the other activities takin f study e.g. forest, oil palm, rice field, agricultu
r monoculture and rubber agroforestry plantatio
Land Cover Maps 2005.
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Bungo district that were ber agroforestry system
monoculture system. In uara Bungo compared
s taking place within the riculture and settlement
ntations in the area of
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4.1.2. Land-use and Planted Area by Major Crops
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