Enhancing Farmer’s Well Being Through the Agriculture Land Provisions in West Nusa Tenggara

Baiq Rindang Aprildahani,Surya Tri Esthi Wira Hutama,Chrisna Trie Hadi Permana

doi:10.20961/ge.v7i2.45324

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Abstract

While carrying out its essential duties to provide adequate foods for people, the agriculture sector is facing sustainability issues. The study presents a case study of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), whereby an increase of urban expansion activities has begun to create a centrifugal force to the province that is popularly called as the granary of Indonesia. Urban settlements slowly leapfrogged to the outskirts and reduced the size of prime agricultural lands. Moreover, existing planning policies were unable to control the situation and many farmers leave their jobs because the setback of farmers wellbeing. The size of agricultural land is highly influential towards farmer motivation to stay engaged in the farming sector. Applying qualitative methods, this study examined the minimum area of agriculture land (focusing on paddy field) to promote farmer’s well-being following three steps of the analytical framework: total agricultural production estimation, the average well-being estimation, and the prediction of minimum land provision for the average well-being. After all, one of the key important findings reveals that the average of minimum agricultural land to ensure famers wellbeing for the whole NTB Province is 0.74 Ha.

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Many scholars consider the existing policies are immature and yet to produce positive impacts that ensure the balance between urban and rural as well as agricultural and industrial sectors in many urban areas around the world (Parnell & Oldfield, 2014). This situation is even more difficult in the emerging world, including Indonesia. This is in line with the problem of poverty in West Nusa Tenggara which is predominantly located in rural areas
NTB is one of provinces being considered as the granary of Indonesia
NTB Province that consists of ten districts has harvested paddy field at 281,666 km2 in 2019

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The agricultural land itself appears in the forms of harvested paddy field is 281,666 km2 in 2019 (NTB Province Statistics Bureau, 2020a). In the first and second stages, the assessment of the total production value of agricultural sector and its overall farmer’s wellbeing, our analysis provides an illustration about how much farmers in particular area could earn from their average production activities within a specific normal period. In Thailand, despite the average of land owned by farmer, used to estimate the minimum measured by the proportion of farming revenue could be earned to define the overall farmer’s wellbeing.

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