The emerging roles of agricultural insurance and farmers cooperatives on sustainable rice productions in Indonesia

1st International Conference on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in The Tropics

农业科学;经济学

Lopulisa, C.^1 ; Rismaneswati^1 ; Ramlan, A.^1 ; Suryani, I.^2

Deparment of Soil Science, Hasanuddin University, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan KM 10, Makassar

90245, Indonesia^1

Faculty of Agriculture, Cokroaminoto University, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan KM 10, Makassar

90245, Indonesia^2

关键词: Agriculture insurances;    Global climatic changes;    Global economics;    Multi-national companies;    Risk management strategies;    Sustainable Farming;    Sustainable rice production;    Technology problems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/157/1/012070/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/157/1/012070

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Rice is the main staple food of most Asian countries including Indonesia. Most of the rice producers are constituted by small individual farmers characterized with mostly landless, have a less farming capitals and less access to pool resources and of course are confronted with various risk. Agriculture is faced with a lot of uncertainly most of which are not within the control of farmers. Global climatic change, climatic disasters, fluctuation of global economic and competitiveness of multinational company make difficulties of farmers to pursue his sustainable farming activity. The challenge and the role of government is to reduce uncertainly and to improve resiliency of the small farmer. Agriculture insurance shall focus on risk factors that are difficult to manage or cannot be managed by small farmers and it is should be viewed as just one aspect of the "holistic" risk management strategy. Technology, market, consumer, behaviour, development will always move forward, and no individual farmers can adapt this change alone, so small farmers need to corporate with each other that can optimized the resources they have. Cooperative could create possibilities, value added, shortening the supplied chain, made a product more effective and efficient, and finally can complete in domestic and global markets. Therefore, agriculture insurance as well a farmer cooperative may play an important role on sustainability of rice production in Indonesia. Nowadays and in the future agriculture sustainability is a not merely of technology problems but also a matter of economic-social-culture and politic issues within local, national, and international context.