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1st Int. Transborder Conf. of the Timor Island: Timor %u2013 Science without borderDili, 7-8 May 202550Intercropping of Sorghum and Horticultural Crops: Its Potential as Ruminant Feed on Various Types of SoilGrace Maranatha*, Fredeicus D. Samba and Asri A. WiduFaculty of Animal Husbandry Marine Fisheries, Nusa Cendana University, Kupang Indonesia 85361*Corresponding author: gracemaranatha@staf.undana.ac.idAbstractThe pattern of cultivating horticultural crops cannot be separated or eliminated from the community agricultural model in the context of cultivating food crops, farming with this system only produces one production result. Soil conditions, characteristics, and water availability also determine plant productivity, both for food and forage. Intercropping is one of the most commonly used cultivation practices in sustainable farming systems, as it plays an important role in increasing land productivity and yield stability. This study aims to determine the potential of sorghum plants planted in intercropping with horticultural crops (Farmer Model), including productivity and production on various types of soil in dry land on Timor Island. This experiment used a completely randomized factorial design with 2 factors (3x3) and 3 replications. The first factor is the type of horticultural plant: Pare (H1), Cucumber (H2), and Long Bean (H3). The second factor is the type of soil, namely litosol soil (LS), grumusol soil (GS), and alluvial soil (AS). This experiment was carried out for 100 days since the land was cultivated in the experimental demonstration plot. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance. The results showed that there was no interaction between treatments p>0.05 on plant height, number of leaves, fresh material production, and dry material production. The factor of differences in types of horticultural plants on intercropping planting patterns also had an insignificant effect of p>0.05, but the factor of differences in soil types had a significant effect of p<0.05 on plant height, number of leaves, fresh material production, and dry material production. It was concluded that different types of soil had different effects on plant height, number of leaves, fresh material production, and dry material production, and the highest was found in the grumusol type of soil, while different types of horticultural plants did not have a significant effect.Keywords: Horticultural Crops, intercropping, potential, soil type, sorghum plants, ruminant feed