International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Peer-Reviewed Journal ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) Vol-9, Issue-1; Jan, 2022 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijaers.com/ Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.91.35 www.ijaers.com Page | 320 Effect of Tillage and Irrigation Method to Sesame (Sesamum Indicum L.) Production in Dryland and Wetland Luluk Sulistiyo Budi, Sri Rahayu, Ma’ruf Pambudi Nurwantara Agriculture faculty, Merdeka Madiun University, Serayu street, No 79, Madiun, East Java, Indonesia E-mail: luluksb@unmer-madiun.ac.id Received: 20 Nov 2021, Received in revised form: 25 Dec 2021, Accepted: 29 Dec 2021, Available online: 11 Jan 2022 ©2022 The Author(s). Published by AI Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Keywords — Tillage models, irrigation, dryland, wetland areas. Sesame, production. Abstract— The productivity of an agricultural commodity is influenced by culture technology such as tillage and water supply. This research aimed to determine the influence of tillage and water supply on the growth and yield of sesame. This experiment used the factorial randomized block design, with three replications. The First factor was the tillage method which consists of three levels, i.e.; no-tillage, minimum tillage, and full tillage. The second factor was irrigation method, i.e., provision of flush water, provision of water through the ditch and the provision of surface waterways. The result showed that the combination of tillage treatment and the provision of water and a variable number of pods on a trial production on dry land, while on trial in wetland areas only the variable weight of 1000 seeds. As there is a difference in the growth of real variables only on trial in wetland areas due to tillage treatments at all ages observation and the results analysis of the experimental on dryland and wetland that water is the determinant of production. I. INTRODUCTION Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is the commodity from people plantation supporting various industries that produce edible oil with low saturated fat [1][2]. Its oil contents reach 47-52%. Sesame and its derivative product have high nutrient, for example, sesame oil which is well known as the king of vegetable oil with anti-oxidant that other vegetable oils didn’t have [3] [4]. Sesame cultivation in Indonesia is mostly cultivated in a limited range and is still a low domestic production[5], but it has a very important role in the development of agro- industries and value-added products [6], on the contrary, United Statescan produce between 900 – 2240 kg/ha that classified as high productivity. The poor mastery of cultivation technology causes low production per unit area. It is also stated that less proper technical culture procedure willobviously lower production and conversely with technology appliance able to increase productivity up to 34% [7]. Until now, most of our farmer still made mistake in applying sesame cultivation technical culture, including tillage, irrigation, fertilization, planting method and obscure variety usage, these causes mall production per unit area [8] and loos of harvest [9]. Indonesia has land potential that suitable for developing this commodity, registered approximately 70.41 million hectares (58%) of 122.05 million hectares sub-optimal land is suitable for farm development and more than 49.3 million ha and still not being used optimally [10]. Related to that matter, the most important thing is how to apply technical culture correctly, especially tillage and irrigation in dryland/moor development and wetland. Dryland situated in higher area that is cultivated without water inundation as usually does in common land[11].On the other hand, wetland is a field with rain as its primary