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Abstract. Certified citrus seed is one of vital component on the program of good
agricultural practices for the development of healthy citrus plantation. Certified seed
guarantee the free systemic disease and optimum vigor planting material, thus put an impact
on maximum physiological response to the agriculture inputs that being applied. Production
of healthy planting material is initially started from the acquisition of free diseases protocol
of seeds from breeder seeds. However, there are still many issues regarding bud-stick in
Indonesia which cause the spread of systemic diseases, one of which is
CVPD/Huanglongbing (HLB). Therefore, this article presents a descriptive review of the
important role of healthy citrus planting materials production that meets the requirements,
so that it can become a reference for the citrus nurseries. There are several factors (limited
availability of citrus planting materials, technology components to produce healthy
seedlings that are not fully applied, as well as the partial application of certified citrus
planting materials) that could inhibit the use of technology by the citrus nurseries. A number
of recommendations from literatures to overcome these problems are the use of effective
dissemination and extension methods, also the provision of understanding and supervision
that is carried out on an ongoing basis.
Keywords: citrus, labeled seeds, healthy seed production procedure, systemic disease, the citrus
industry
1. Introduction
Citrus is one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world, including Indonesia. About
255 varieties have been recorded being cultivated in the country and comprised 43% mandarin, 4%
tangerine, 0.7% sweet orange, 14.3% sour orange, 15% pummelo, and 23% rootstocks, lime, lemon,
and other types of the species of C. medica [1]. The national citrus production fluctuated in the last
decade. In 2019, the total harvested citrus area was 73,083 hectares, with a production of 2.7 million
tons [2]. In the same year, Indonesia exported citrus with a volume of 1,752 tons to neighboring
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countries. The trend of citrus imports has decreased since 2012, although in 2019, there was a surge,
especially in the value of imports which reached 100 thousand tons [3], or only 4% of national
production. The imported citrus came from China, Pakistan, Thailand, USA, and at times from
Argentina and South Africa. This was triggered by the increase in citrus consumption per capita [4-5].
The trend of consumption of citrus fruits in Indonesia was increasing six times since 1995. In 2020,
the average consumption of citrus fruit by Indonesian reached 4 kg/per capita with positive trends. The
conditions indicated that the domestic market is still wide open for domestic and imported citrus fruits.
The government has responded to the increase in imported citrus by launching a new citrus farming
support program to increase citrus planting areas in 80 regions in Indonesia [6].
Average national tangerine and mandarin citrus productivity ranged from 20-25 tons per hectare.
Some orchards that have implemented good agricultural practices (GAP), such as mandarin RGL in
Bengkulu and Mandarin Batu 55 farmers in Malang, enabled them to produce 50 tons per hectare or
twice as many as the other traditional orchards. These farmers have used certified seeds in which the
health and growth quality are guaranteed. With proper maintenance, the productive plants may spend a
dozen years, or even reach 20 years with stable production volume per plant.
Certified citrus seed is the first key to successful citrus agribusiness [7]. Certified seeds guarantee
the optimum vigor planting material, expecting a maximum physiological response to the agro-input
being applied. The certified seed also assures the seeds are free from disastrous diseases, like
Huanglongbing (HLB). Indonesia is known to be one of the endemic areas of the respected disease.
The disease destroyed many citrus orchards and collapsed production centers in many areas during the
1980s. In Sambas - West Kalimantan for instants, 3,572 of 11,827 hectares (approximately 31% of the
total area) of the productively harvestable area have been destroyed by the disease. Other production
centers, even have worse situations due to the disease [8].
Various programs have been launched to recover the production centers and rebuild the farmers’
confidence in citrus agribusiness. The steps have been comprehensively carried out from the healthy
planting material production, and plant maintenance up to the restriction of the disease spread. The
production of healthy planting material has started with the development of the Foundation Block (FB)
and the Bud-stick (planting material) Multiplication Block (BMB) in the production centers to ease the
citrus farmers’ access the healthy citrus seeds. The distribution of citrus seeds in Indonesia is 1.6 to 2
million annually, which is equivalent to 4000-5000 hectares for the development of new areas and
replanting existing citrus development areas.
The development of healthy seed production still has faced several constraints. First, the
availability of targeted seeds of each targeted variety cannot be fulfilled at any time. This was related
to the availability of the planting material source according to the physiological attributes of each
genotype or variety. The other is that the standard of quality of citrus seeds has not been implemented
in various citrus centers. Most often, the circulating seeds vary in terms of qualities and subsequently
impacted the plant growth performance and fruit production. The difficulty in acquiring citrus planting
material from BMB also occurred in Soe, East Nusa Tenggara, so the development of citrus in these
areas during the last two decades has stagnated [9].
The source seeds produced by ICSFRI during the 2015-2020 period were 43,046 in 30 provinces
throughout Indonesia. The potential amount produced is 21,465,150 seeds are equivalent to 53,663
hectares or 73% of the national area of Indonesian citrus, which is 73,083 ha in 2019. Up to this
moment, the demanded varieties of citrus seeds are less varied and still dominated by commercial
varieties that have been released for more than twenty years. The new varieties launched in the last
decade are needed to be promoted to provide diverse choices to growers/consumers.
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so citrus seedlings become one of the causes of the spread of Citrus Vein Phloem Degeneration
(CVPD)/HLB.
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rootstock is ready for grafting at the age of about 4 months after transplanting with a stem diameter of
at least 8 mm.
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Figure 1 showed that the scions that come from the foundation block are then used as plant
propagation material in the budwood multiplication block as a stock seed. As for the production of
extension seed, the scions used to come from the budwood multiplication block. The source of the
scions in the foundation block and budwood multiplication block is planted in a screen house with a
hole size of 1 mm, double doors, and equipped with a fungicide disinfectant tub. Double doors
function to minimize the entry of disease-transmitting insects. In addition, the indexing of five
pathogens is also carried out periodically in the foundation block. The certified stock seed in Indonesia
has been produced by the Production Unit of Elite Planting Material (UPBS) of The Indonesian Citrus
and Subtropical Fruit Research Institute (ICSFRI) since 2014. Since then, the production of free-
disease citrus stock seeds follows a standard operational standard that has been approved by the
National Agency of Seed Certification [30].
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SDMC [32]. Several national citrus dissemination programs/communication channels that have been
held include (a) exhibitions and exposures, ranging from agency to national scopes, including holding
technology exhibitions; (b) meeting forums through training and technical guidance, which is known
as Bimtek; (c) printed media, whether brochures, leaflets, posters; and (4) electronic media (website,
Facebook, podcast). According to the research results of [33] meeting forums are media that are often
accessed by respondents.
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‘Pontianak’. While in 2016, the Tangerine ‘Banjar’ was still the most preferred followed by Mandarin
‘Terigas’ and Tangerine ‘Siam Madu’. Tangerine ‘Banjar’ was still the most ordered in 2017, together
with Mandarin ‘RGL’ and Tangerine ‘Siam Madu’. In 2018, tangerine varieties were dominated on the
foundation and stock seed production/demand, i.e. Pontianak, Madu, and Banjar. While in 2019,
Tangerine ‘Pontianak’ and Mandarin ‘Terigas’ were the most preferred. The different domination of
produced varieties in each year represented the different areas of cultivation and/or consumer/market
preferences related to the variety being planted [37-40].
In terms of the number of distributed foundation and stock seeds, the PBS from East Java had
ordered the highest number of foundation and stock seeds from UPBS-ICSFRI. From 2015-2019, as
many as 11,311 plants have been planted and served as the foundation and planting material for the
production of extension seeds at the East Java PBS. The other provinces that also have a collaborative
program for certified/healthy extension seed production with ICSFRI are Central Java, North
Sumatera, West Kalimantan, Bengkulu, South Kalimantan, Papua, West Java, Aceh, Central
Kalimantan, Riau. East- South Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Lampung, West Sumatera, South Sumatera,
East Kalimantan, Jambi, North Kalimantan, Bali, Yogyakarta, West Papua, West Sulawesi, Central
Sulawesi, North Maluku and North Sulawesi. In the future, the demand for healthy extension seeds
would be predictably increased in line with the increase of the newly planted area of citrus,
rehabilitation of citrus orchards, and the demand for newly incoming released varieties that are
preferred by consumers [41-42].
6. Conclusion
The revitalization and development of newly extended citrus production centers in Indonesia have
been comprehensively carried out since the 1980s. Production of free-disease and vigor planting
materials have been considered one of the most vital factors in replacement of the unproductive plants
and with proper maintenance, these will ensure long-lasting productive plants. The production of
healthy planting material started from the acquisition of the free diseases protocol, thus becoming the
initial source of the lower seed classes. Every production process follows standard operational
procedures, including periodic indexing of the systemic disease and replanting of the mother plants.
The seeds that pass quality control will be labeled and ready to be transferred to growers. Referring to
the problems that exist in the production of citrus bud-stick (limited availability of citrus planting
materials, technology components to produce healthy seedlings that are not fully applied, as well as
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the partial application of certified citrus planting materials), periodic visits to monitor growers’ citrus
plants were carried out to supervise growers that are included in the activities of field training on
specific cases, problem-solving and cultural practices recommendation, and technology transfer.
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