Swamp land optimization in supporting food security and enhancing farmers welfare in South Sumatra Indonesia

International Conference on Agriculture, Environment, and Food Security

农业科学;生态环境科学

Herwenita^1 ; Hutapea, Y.^1

South Sumatra Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology (AIAT), Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia^1

关键词: Fish farming;    Food security;    Household food;    Indonesia;    Interest rates;    Kalimantan;    Land areas;    Land managements;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/122/1/012072/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/122/1/012072

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Swamp land in Indonesia spread in Sumatra, Kalimantan and West Papua. In Sumatra the largest swamp land area is located in South Sumatera Province. Unfortunately only few of the areas have been utilized due to its fragility, in which farmers could only cultivate rice on it once a year. The purpose of this paper is to develop a feasible farming pattern in swamp land to help farmers and practitioners in optimizing it by managing its water level. Shallow and mid swamp land can be cultivated using rotation model of crops (rice, corn, cassava), horticulture (cucumber, long beans, watermelon etc), fish farming (catfish, snake head fish, tilapia), and duck farming, whereas submergence tolerant rice varieties can be cultivated alternating with fish farming in deep swamp land. This study shows that such swamp land management is financially feasible showing by its positive NPV value, BCR value is above 1.00, and IRR value is greater than the interest rate. Therefore, implementation of this farming pattern is expected to increase farmers' income and household food supply as well as village food supply.