Abstract

The research objective was to formulate a sustainable dryland management strategy in Buleleng Regency, Bali Province. The results showed that the effective strategies were namely: (1) Utilizing available dryland to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural production; (2) Utilizing the research results of research institutes of the Ministry and University related to dryland; (3) Attracting investors to invest in the use of dryland, strengths-threats (ST) strategies; (4) Rearranging of inheritance of agricultural land to avoid narrowing agricultural land owners; (5) Application of agricultural technology 4.0 to attract millennials to work in agriculture; the weakness-opportunity (WO) strategy, (6) Increasing the productivity of dryland by applying technology produced by ministerial research institutes and University, (7) Increasing the availability of facilities and infrastructure to support dryland development, such as making jubang, drip irrigation, etc. (8) Increasing capital and facilitating access to capital, and market networks and partnership systems; The WT strategy, (9) Implementing the Perpetual Land Law to prevent land conversion for non-agricultural purposes, and (10) Improving the quality of farmers' human resources through trainings, so that farmers have the ability to take advantage of existing technology. Key words: Sustainable, dryland, strategy, management, strengths-opportunity (SO), strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT).  

Highlights

  • Sustainable upland management is an agricultural system that utilizes dryland resources to produce food and income of the management farmers, to meet the needs of human life without lowering the quality of land resources and the environment, so that the resources of dryland can be utilized sustainably by the generation

  • SO Strategy (Strengths- Opportunities)) is a strategy used to achieve the greatest opportunities in relation to the management of dryland in Buleleng Regency of Bali Province, among others: 1. Utilizing available dryland to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural production: Buleleng District Agriculture Office has recorded an area of dryland in Buleleng Regency reaching 45,000 ha, and only about 30,000 ha is utilized by farmers to grow secondary crop such as corn, beans and horticultural crops such as mangoes

  • The dryland management strategy in Buleleng district, namely: the SO strategy is (1) Utilizing available dryland to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural production, (2) Utilizing research results from research institutes of the Ministry and Higher Education (PT) related to dryland, (3) Attracting investors to invest in using dryland

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Introduction

Sustainable upland management is an agricultural system that utilizes dryland resources to produce food and income of the management farmers, to meet the needs of human life without lowering the quality of land resources and the environment, so that the resources of dryland can be utilized sustainably by the generation. According to Abdurachman and Sutono (2005) and Arsyad (2010), the implementation of sustainable agricultural systems should be environmentally, technically, economically, and socially feasible. Management of the dryland properly and sustainably is currently and urgently needed to be applied, given that there has been a lot of land degradation, it is necessaryly proper and targeted on land management technology (location specific) in accordance with the sacredness (quality, characteristics) of the relevant land resources (Utomo, 2002; Kurnia et al, 2004; Endriani, 2010).

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