Food self-sufficiency: Managing the newly-opened tidal paddy fields for rice farming in Indonesia (A case study in West Kalimantan, Indonesia)
Muhammad Hatta,
Sulakhudin,
Rusli Burhansyah,
Gontom C. Kifli,
Dina O. Dewi,
Juliana C. Kilmanun,
Dadan Permana,
Khojin Supriadi,
Riki Warman,
Hozin Azis,
Putri Tria Santari,
Dwi P. Widiastuti
Affiliations
Muhammad Hatta
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia; Corresponding author.
Sulakhudin
Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanjungpura University, Jl.Prof. Hadari Nawawi, Pontianak, West Kalimantan 78121, Indonesia
Rusli Burhansyah
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Gontom C. Kifli
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Dina O. Dewi
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Juliana C. Kilmanun
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Dadan Permana
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Khojin Supriadi
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Riki Warman
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Hozin Azis
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Putri Tria Santari
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
Dwi P. Widiastuti
National Research and Innovation Agency, B.J. Habibie Building 15th-24th Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 8, Jakarta Pusat 10340, Indonesia
The Indonesian government continues to develop a sustainable food self-sufficiency program by increasing national food security through an extension program. One of the instruments is by opening new rice fields. The area of new rice fields in Indonesia is 222,442 ha spreading on the islands of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. This new rice field is estimated to produce 1.2 million tons of rice per year. In the case of West Kalimantan Province, it has opened new rice fields cover an area of 23,384 ha, mostly in tidal lands. Expansion of newly-opened rice fields does not increase land productivity. Moreover, rice productivity in the newly-opened paddy fields is only an average of 2 t ha−1. The low rice productivity is caused by biophysical factors of land in agriculture, and social-economic, and institutional factors of farmers at the village level. Therefore, it is necessary to have a rice farming model in newly-opened rice fields involving farmer groups, researchers, agricultural extension agents, government agencies, the private sector, and banks. The purpose of this study was to present a sustainable rice farming model in the newly-opened tidal rice fields. The results of this study showed that application of the rice farming model in newly-opened tidal rice fields could increase rice productivity from 2 to 5.7 t ha−1 and farmer income of IDR 10.6 million, involving good collaboration among farmer groups and farmer economic organizations supported by banks for sustainability.