Bandarlampung, Ekuatorial – Fearing of landslide, citizens of Bandarlampung have been chasing away illegal gold miners in their resident areas,” said a local resident, in Bandarlampung, on Tuesday (10/3). Umri, a local resident, said that there were no longer illegal gold miners in his home located in Sukabumi sub-district of Bandarlampung city. “We are worried […]
Solo, Ekuatorial – With bad weather continues to hit Central Java, farmers are left battling pests in their paddy fields on their own as local officials have yet to receive any reports on the condition. “Around eight hectares of paddy fields are attacked by golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata lamarck ) and four hectares must […]
Bandarlampung, Ekuatorial – Green activists on Tuesday (29/12) called for the government to be serious to solve conflicts related to natural resources, including to stop criminalizing environment defenders. Bejoe Dewangga, director of Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) chapter Lampung, said that conflicts related to natural resources were linked to forest management gap in giving […]
East Aceh, Ekuatorial – After five years of experiment, two farmers of East Aceh district developed environmentally friendly pesticide for their paddies establishing different way of farming. Jafar, 55 years old farmer of Seulemak Muda village of Nurussalam sub district, and his son of 25 years old, Agusnaini started out their experiment after most of […]
Langsa, Ekuatorial – Eco-friendly agriculture practice, dubbed as System Rice Intensification (SRI), turned out to be more profitable than regular agricultural method, said a farmer in Langsa, on Monday (17/11). The SRI method is an eco-friendly agricultural practice which intensified land use and use organic products, especially for its fertilizers. This type of agriculture is […]
Jakarta, Ekuatorial – The seed is the starting point of a food system. When the seed is ruled by some group, then the food system will be controlled by that group. This was disclosed by Vandana Shiva, an eco-feminists, philosophers, writers, scientists and activists of the world from India at a public lecture entitled “Our […]
Director General of Infrastructure and Facility Agriculture Ministry of Agriculture,Gatot Irianto said that remaining farmland in Indonesia is only 8.1 million hectares and will threatened out in 2149. That threat caused by increasing speed of land conversion up to two times larger than the target of making new field per year. Read full text on […]
Soybeans from Papua, produced by farmers in the area of Nimbokrang and Keerom, not much preferred by Papuan tofu and tempe producer. They prefer soybeans from Java rather than local because the quality is better. Papua soybean production in 2014 according to the forecast figures I estimated at 3,622 tons of dry beans (BK), a […]
Dozens of farmers in the mountain slopes of Kelud, District Ngancar, protest to the National Land Agency (BPN) Kediri. The protest concerned a dispute over land with the plantation company Sumbersari Petung and government. The land of 250 hectares which falls to the public according to the court, in practice only 230 hectares were released […]
Four local villages in Tabonji District, Papua, open farmland to grow rice. These four villages are Bamol, Yeraha, Suam Satu, and Suam Dua. Their hard work in the past few months resulted in a very satisfactory harvest. Now, people in Tabonji District do not expect the help of rice for poor or raskin anymore. [Read […]
