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DARE TO TURN AROUND
2013 UMALI AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHProf.Dr.Sjarifudin Baharsjah
THE RICE SELF SUFFICIENCYACHIEVED BY INDONESIA IN 1984
• The achievement was reached under the leadership of a dedicated Government at all levels, supported by the active participation of motivated farmers
• The instrument was the Green Revolution Technology initiated by the Noble laureate Norman Borlaug and translated in practical terms for Indonesia by A.T. Mosher
• The main land resource was the irrigated sawah on Java which produces 60% of the national rice production
RICE SELF SUFFICIENCY TO SUPPORT EXPORT DRIVEN GROWTH
To accelerate growth, Govt. assumed a policy of export driven growth
Agriculture contributed to create the low cost condition accelerate growth the country as by maintaining rice self sufficiency for competitiveness in the world market
The green revolution technology model remained the main instrument
CHALLENGES FACED BY MAINTAINING POLICY OF RICE/FOOD SELF SUFFICIENCY
The acreage of irrigated sawah on Java of 3.3 million Hectares continues to shrink at the alarming rate of 50.000 Hectares per year
The country’s large population of 238 million people in 2010 continues to grow at 1.5 % per annum and consumption of rice per capita per year remains high (139 kg)
Opening new sawah in other islands faces serious constrains
IMPORTS OF FOOD TO MEETDOMESTIC DEMAND
Import of food stuff during last decade
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
Import
export
INSPITE OF THE CHALLENGES
Government still insists to continues its policy of maintaining self sufficiency, even broadening the targets to include rice, corn, sugar, soy bean and meat.
The main instrument remains the Green Revolution Technology
The main land resource remains the irrigated sawah land on Java island
CONCEQUENCES OF CONTINUING FAILED POLICY OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY
An increasingly dominant role of government, and an increasingly passive farmer population
Aggrevated with the opening of the domestic market, an involution of the rural agricultural economy where poverty increases, jobs become scarce and land grabbing by rich farmers and large firms occur
Urbanization of 5.04 million landless and peasant farmers to informal sectors in towns
INVOLUTION OF THE RURAL AGRICULTURE ECONOMY
Value of per capita productivity of labor in agriculture and in other fields
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
(US $
)
Industry
Service
National Average
Agriculture
POTENTIAL THREAT TO NATIONAL ECONOMY
As most of the country’s population lives in the rural areas, it becomes very important that the grave rural agrulture economic involution is properly addressed. Otherwise it may become an ever
enlarging balloon of poverty which endangers the whole economy leading to a national catastrophe
THE NEED FOR A NEW AGRICULTURE POLICY
A new agriculture policy is needed to replace the current one which has become obsolete.
The new agriculture police should be based on actual availability of resources, enables best possible agricultural practices by farmers
It should lead agriculture development toward long term goals, i.e. able to produce enough food, raise farmers welfare and contribute to national development.
Application of Blue Economy enables the exploitation of upland and swampyland, and sawah land for agriculture
Many principles of Blue Economy as applied to agriculture have been practiced by farmers, and are rooted in their tradition including the zero waste principle
Uphold the principles of sound ecology
NEW AGRICULTURE POLICY, APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF BLUE ECONOMY
A NEED TO TURN AROUND
For the transformation to proceed succesfully all parties involved shall change its approach to agriculture development.
These include: policy makers, government, scientists, researchers, extension workers, the business community
Farmers are the only group ready to make the change
TURN AROUND 1 : FROM ONLY SAWAH TO UPLAND, SWAMPY LAND AND SAWAH
• It is important to enlarge the major land resources for rice and food production to include upland and swampy land in addition to sawah to meet future domestic needs
• It is important to stop the decreasing trend of the acreage of sawah in Java which is our cultural heritage, and which still contributes significantly to national rice production
• It is important to continue generate technology to increase yields on sawah, upland and swampy land
TURN AROUND 2 FROM GREEN REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGY TO BLUE ECONOMY
Based on a regional approach with farmers as main operators, encouraged to work together in farmers cooperatives
Practicing multi crops farming, to produce mostly processed products, capable to join partnership with larger firms for further processing and marketing the products
Apply the Zero-Waste principle
TURN AROUND 3 : REORIENTATION OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
Refocus agriculture research from a single crop focus to multicrops farming on sawah, upland and swampyland
Establish an Upland/ Swampyland Research Center to generate technical and socio-economic know how to assist farmers working in upland and swampyland multiple cropping systems increase productivity and welfare
TURN AROUND 4 : REORIENTATION OF AGRICULTURE EXTENTION
Extension workers are required to reassume the twin roles, to be transmitters of technology cum motivators to farmers
Encourage Field Schools run by farmers assisted by senior extension officers
Encourage farmers to make use of on-line dissemination of market information
TURN AROUND 5 : REORIENTATION OFTHE GOVERNMENT APPROACH TO
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Managing agriculture development with the single crop approach inherent to the Green Revolution Technology is not
sufficiently capable of managing agriculture development based on a regional approach with multicrops farming system as
required by the Blue Economy model
TURN AROUND 6 : REVERSE THE ROLES OF GOVERNMENT AND OF FARMERS
Reverse the trend of increasingly dominant role of government, limit its role to regulating and facilitating the agriculture development process
Restore the active and participative role of farmers, and empower their local wisdom and social capital.
Encourage farmers assotiations, cooperatives and farmers owned firms
TURN AROUND 7 : REALOCATE THE DEVELOPMENT BUDGET
The allocation and composition of the Development Budget should reflect programs in line with the execution of
agriculture development based on Blue Economy instead of that based on the Green Revolution Technology
DARE TO TURN AROUND AND ACCEPT THE INVITATION TO TURN TO FARMERS AS CHANGE AGENTS TO ACHIEVE AGRICULTURE SUCCESS
THANK YOU
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