The analyze of agroclimate in ub forest area malang district, east Java, Indonesia

UB Forest was a forest area located on the slope of Mount Arjuna Malang, East Java, Indonesia. This forest has functions such as protected areas, research areas and production areas. As area production, this forest has many agriculture commodity had been developed such coffee, mustard, carrot and cabbage with pine and mahogany stands. The research aim was identifying of forest area and analyze of micro climate condition than knew suitability of agro climate at UB Forest area. The results showed that UB Forest area consists of four areas such as pine forests, pine and coffee agroforestry, pine agroforestry and vegetable crops and mahogany and coffee agroforestry. The highest temperature conditions were in the area of mahogany and coffee agroforestry that is 24-27 ⁰C while the area with the lowest temperature is in pine forest area between 22-24⁰C. Different with temperature, humidity conditions with the highest value found in the pine forest area of 62-76% while the lowest humidity in the agroforestry and mahogany coffee area is 54-64%. While the highest percentage of light intensity based on the four UB Forest land use was the highest pine agroforestry area with vegetable crops of 56-97%. Based on these results could be concluded that the microclimate situation of UB Forest area was influenced by land use and plant spacing. While the suitability of commodities in the UB Forest area based on the microclimate conditions of each region were coffee and vegetable crops.