Research Article
Increasing Local Farmers Sustainability Index Status to Preserve Agricultural Sustainability
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-10-2019.2291464, author={Hanipah Hanipah and Hayati Sari Hasibuan and Rudy P. Tambunan}, title={Increasing Local Farmers Sustainability Index Status to Preserve Agricultural Sustainability}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, ICESSD 2019, 22-23 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICESSD}, year={2020}, month={3}, keywords={farmer index status karawang’s farmers profession transition sustainability}, doi={10.4108/eai.22-10-2019.2291464} }- Hanipah Hanipah
Hayati Sari Hasibuan
Rudy P. Tambunan
Year: 2020
Increasing Local Farmers Sustainability Index Status to Preserve Agricultural Sustainability
ICESSD
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-10-2019.2291464
Abstract
In recent years, there has been land-use changes from the paddy field to the industrial and housing in Karawang. The proportion of paddy fields changed from 55.35% (2009) to 54.49% (2017). Industries also attracted people to switch professions from farming to the industrial. Indicated by the decreasing number of workers in the farming, from 4,628 people (2009) to 3,744 people (2010) and increasing in the industrial, from 89,163 people (2009) to 242,896 people (2016). The purpose of study is to measure the index of farmers' sustainability status. The study uses the Multi-Dimensional Scaling method with 3 dimensions: social, economic and environmental. The results found that the economic dimension has the lowest index. The most problem in the economic dimension is the high capital for production. The social dimension showed that farmers have no re-generation. Moreover, the environment dimension showed that almost 40% of the farmers have no land, and the most critical issue to deal with are access to the irrigation to increase the rice-production.