Estimation of loss of rice farmers due to flood at Krueng Kluet Watershed (with the eclac method approach)

Abstract

Deforestation in protected areas has caused flooding which has an impact on the rice farming sector at Krueng Kluet Aceh watershed. The purpose of this study is to analyze the area and area of rice fields affected by the Krueng Kluet watershed flood and calculate the estimated economic value of rice farmers’ losses due to flooding in the Krueng Kluet watershed using the ECLAC method. The results obtained in this study there are four classifications of flooding in lowland rice farming land, namely, very high, high, medium and low prone, with a total of 1.391 ha of lowland rice land affected by flooding in the Krueng Kluet watershed. The estimated value of the total loss from the impact of floods that hit lowland rice farming in the Krueng Kluet watershed area is 9,052,640,500 IDR. The implication of this research is the forest destruction consequence in the upstream of the Krueng Kluet watershed, the flood intensity is increasing from year to year greatly impacted the paddy rice agricultural sector. As a result of flooding many farmers suffered losses, mainly because the death of planted rice seeds, crop failures and loss of paddy rice production which was swept away by the flood currents.