Food endurance programs are meant to operate the development in order to
improve food endurance system at both national and society level. Food in a
wide range of meanings include food derived from plants, animals and fish to
obtain the demand for carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals that
are beneficial to the growth of human health.Food endurance can be defined as
compliance in the availability of food at all times, in all areas, easy to
obtain, safe to eat and prices that are affordable for all kinds of society
levels. This is realized by the operation of sub-system availability,
sub-system distribution and sub-system consumption.
There are four main objetives of food endurance, the first one is an increase in food availability (so that foods are available for everyone in our country), the second is developing food diversification (expanding the variety types of foods and to expand the market of food institutionals), the third is developing food institutional (to maintain and increase the availability of foods), and the last is developing food processing businesses (to improve quality and quantity of the food and to expand into a bigger food processing business).
Food endurance have two main targets to achieve, the first target is to achieve sufficient food availability at regional and society levels (available to everyone) and the second or last target is to encourage the society to participate in achieving food endurance, an increase in the diversity of food consumption and a decrease in reliance on rice through the diversion of non-rice consumption.
Implementation of the programs to improve food endurance is operationalized in the form of four main activities as follows:
a) Improved intensification quality implemented in the form of efforts to increase productivity through the application of appropriate technology efforts, increase farmers' knowledge and skills in order to operate specific technologies.
b) Expansion of planting areas (extension) is implemented in the form of raw land and the expansion of irrigation and cropping index increased by cultivation of unused and abandoned land.
There are four main objetives of food endurance, the first one is an increase in food availability (so that foods are available for everyone in our country), the second is developing food diversification (expanding the variety types of foods and to expand the market of food institutionals), the third is developing food institutional (to maintain and increase the availability of foods), and the last is developing food processing businesses (to improve quality and quantity of the food and to expand into a bigger food processing business).
Food endurance have two main targets to achieve, the first target is to achieve sufficient food availability at regional and society levels (available to everyone) and the second or last target is to encourage the society to participate in achieving food endurance, an increase in the diversity of food consumption and a decrease in reliance on rice through the diversion of non-rice consumption.
Implementation of the programs to improve food endurance is operationalized in the form of four main activities as follows:
a) Improved intensification quality implemented in the form of efforts to increase productivity through the application of appropriate technology efforts, increase farmers' knowledge and skills in order to operate specific technologies.
b) Expansion of planting areas (extension) is implemented in the form of raw land and the expansion of irrigation and cropping index increased by cultivation of unused and abandoned land.
c) Securing production that are achieved through the use of appropriate harvest technology, control of plant pests and the assistence of production tools or means especially the seeds for farmers whose lands are experiencing puso.
d) Rehabilitation and conservation of soil and ground water, held in the form of efforts to improve the quality of degraded land.
To accelerate
the realization of this program, our country needs an external help or support
from other country. United States is an example of a country that supports
indonesia’s food endurance program, the United States launched an Agribusiness Market and Support
Activity (AMARTA II) program worth 15 million US dollars to support food and
agribusiness resilience in Indonesia early in March 2012. The main purpose of
this program is to help farmers to concentrate more on boosting production by
inviting researchers, business corporations and government officials to talk,
and various technologies and information, which is also in line with the
Indnesian govenment’s program. Indonesia has so many potentials and
opportunities to boost agricultural production to overcome one of the world’s
problem on agricultural production, and by cooperating between the two
countries they combined the technologies and researchers from United States
with the farmers and potentials of the land from Indonesia to solve problems
together.
These are the
three food endurance programs that are delivered by the indonesian vice
president Mr. Boediono on his scientific oration in Bogor Institute of
Agriculture:
1. Self-sufficiency in food
commodities that are
socially and
politically strategic; self-sufficiency in some of the
commodities are the core of the problem, so our government needs to fulfill the
self-sufficiency in that commodities.
2. Stock
policies facing
the uncertainity; economic factor gives an impact on food endurance.
3. Food endurance program for families living in
poverty; ensuring the availability of foods that are afforable for families
living in poverty.
There are lots
of programs that could support food endurance in Indonesia, but strengths and
weaknesses of this food endurance program couldn’t be avoided. Strengths of
Indonesia’s food endurance are that society of all levels in Indonesia support
this type of program, food endurance is still developing in Indonesia,
Indonesia has a big potential on it’s land to grow variety kinds of fruits and
vegetables, the last strength of Indonesia’s food endurance is not only the
researchers and scientists that can participate in this food endurance program,
but also farmers that can make a big impact on our agricultural point of view.
Other than strengths, weaknesses are also can be found in food endurance in
Indonesia, corruption that also affects the food endurance program showed by
the inequality food distribution accross the country, the conversion of
agricultural land into houses and building that causes a decrease in food
production, the population of this country that are categorized as an over
populated country that causes excess demand or shortage of foods, limited
amount of modern technology to support agricultural activities, limited amout
of farmers in Indonesia, still depend on the supply not from production, and still
imports rice and other foods from other country than improving the
self-sufficiency in food availability.
In some of the
countries in East and Southeast Asia, improvements in food endurance and
reduction of porverty has been a result of government efforts to link market
economic growth to interventions that improve food endurance at both household
and national levels. This strategic connection is not an accident, it is meant
to solve more than one problem at the same time and use time as efficient as
possible. In macro point of view, by using this link to food endurance, it
allows a country to capture the economic growth. Macro food policy has three
components that reinforce the country’s food endurance: rapid growth in the
macro economy, poverty reduction, and stability of the food system. Agriculture
and a dynamic rural economy are the key to integrating all three components and
are the key to solve the problems that Indonesia are facing.
To overcome the
weaknesses, all levels of society must participate to improve the food
endurance in Indonesia; by rising the amount of production, a farmer can reduce
the amount of foods imported to this country and change this country into a
self-sufficiency country, and farmers can also change this country into an
export country with the supply above the foods needed to reach food endurance
and self-sufficiency in foods are that obtained from the local farmers. By
decreasing or demolishing the amount of corruption in Indonesia, Indonesia can
improve their economic growth rapidly and solve the food endurance problems.
Technology is one of the most important piece of puzzle to up-scale the
production and reach food endurance program, by improving the technology all
aspects that correspods with food endurance will decreace the amount of errors
made.
Not only the
society that has to participate, but government also has to take part because
government have the rights to create policies to overcome the weaknesses of
food endurance in Indonesia; The goventment must limit the amount of foods
imported to this country, the amount of foods imported should correspods with
the amount of foods needed to reach the food endurance program in Indonesia.
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1 comment:
Thank you for the excellent information.
I agree that The government must help the people of Indonesia to push ahead and support the farmers and entrepreneurs in agriculture in every way to reach the food endurance (for example support them in financial way) as the food endurance will also affect the economic growth in Indonesia and minimalize the poverty level of Indonesian.
In my opinion, the people of Indonesia should also help the government’s plan by developing and consuming various kind of food so it will create a food endurance that will prevent a food crisis which is avoided by the whole people on earth.
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