Food endurance programs are meant to operate the development in order to improve food endurance system at both national and society level. Food in a wide range of meanings include food derived from plants, animals and fish to obtain the demand for carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals that are beneficial to the growth of human health.Food endurance can be defined as compliance in the availability of food at all times, in all areas, easy to obtain, safe to eat and prices that are affordable for all kinds of society levels. This is realized by the operation of sub-system availability, sub-system distribution and sub-system consumption.
There are four main objetives of food endurance, the first one is an increase in food availability (so that foods are available for everyone in our country), the second is developing food diversification (expanding the variety types of foods and to expand the market of food institutionals), the third is developing food institutional (to maintain and increase the availability of foods), and the last is developing food processing businesses (to improve quality and quantity of the food and to expand into a bigger food processing business).
Food endurance have two main targets to achieve, the first target is to achieve sufficient food availability at regional and society levels (available to everyone) and the second or last target is to encourage the society to participate in achieving food endurance, an increase in the diversity of food consumption and a decrease in reliance on rice through the diversion of non-rice consumption.
Implementation of the programs to improve food endurance is operationalized in the form of four main activities as follows:
a) Improved intensification quality implemented in the form of efforts to increase productivity through the application of appropriate technology efforts, increase farmers' knowledge and skills in order to operate specific technologies.
b) Expansion of planting areas (extension) is implemented in the form of raw land and the expansion of irrigation and cropping index increased by cultivation of unused and abandoned land.
There are four main objetives of food endurance, the first one is an increase in food availability (so that foods are available for everyone in our country), the second is developing food diversification (expanding the variety types of foods and to expand the market of food institutionals), the third is developing food institutional (to maintain and increase the availability of foods), and the last is developing food processing businesses (to improve quality and quantity of the food and to expand into a bigger food processing business).
Food endurance have two main targets to achieve, the first target is to achieve sufficient food availability at regional and society levels (available to everyone) and the second or last target is to encourage the society to participate in achieving food endurance, an increase in the diversity of food consumption and a decrease in reliance on rice through the diversion of non-rice consumption.
Implementation of the programs to improve food endurance is operationalized in the form of four main activities as follows:
a) Improved intensification quality implemented in the form of efforts to increase productivity through the application of appropriate technology efforts, increase farmers' knowledge and skills in order to operate specific technologies.
b) Expansion of planting areas (extension) is implemented in the form of raw land and the expansion of irrigation and cropping index increased by cultivation of unused and abandoned land.
c) Securing production that are achieved through the use of appropriate harvest technology, control of plant pests and the assistence of production tools or means especially the seeds for farmers whose lands are experiencing puso.
d) Rehabilitation and conservation of soil and ground water, held in the form of efforts to improve the quality of degraded land.
To accelerate the realization of this program, our country needs an external help or support from other country. United States is an example of a country that supports indonesia’s food endurance program, the United States launched an Agribusiness Market and Support Activity (AMARTA II) program worth 15 million US dollars to support food and agribusiness resilience in Indonesia early in March 2012. The main purpose of this program is to help farmers to concentrate more on boosting production by inviting researchers, business corporations and government officials to talk, and various technologies and information, which is also in line with the Indnesian govenment’s program. Indonesia has so many potentials and opportunities to boost agricultural production to overcome one of the world’s problem on agricultural production, and by cooperating between the two countries they combined the technologies and researchers from United States with the farmers and potentials of the land from Indonesia to solve problems together.
These are the three food endurance programs that are delivered by the indonesian vice president Mr. Boediono on his scientific oration in Bogor Institute of Agriculture:
1. Self-sufficiency in food commodities that aresocially and politically strategic; self-sufficiency in some of the commodities are the core of the problem, so our government needs to fulfill the self-sufficiency in that commodities.
2. Stockpolicies facing the uncertainity; economic factor gives an impact on food endurance.
3. Food endurance program for families living in poverty; ensuring the availability of foods that are afforable for families living in poverty.
There are lots of programs that could support food endurance in Indonesia, but strengths and weaknesses of this food endurance program couldn’t be avoided. Strengths of Indonesia’s food endurance are that society of all levels in Indonesia support this type of program, food endurance is still developing in Indonesia, Indonesia has a big potential on it’s land to grow variety kinds of fruits and vegetables, the last strength of Indonesia’s food endurance is not only the researchers and scientists that can participate in this food endurance program, but also farmers that can make a big impact on our agricultural point of view. Other than strengths, weaknesses are also can be found in food endurance in Indonesia, corruption that also affects the food endurance program showed by the inequality food distribution accross the country, the conversion of agricultural land into houses and building that causes a decrease in food production, the population of this country that are categorized as an over populated country that causes excess demand or shortage of foods, limited amount of modern technology to support agricultural activities, limited amout of farmers in Indonesia, still depend on the supply not from production, and still imports rice and other foods from other country than improving the self-sufficiency in food availability.
In some of the countries in East and Southeast Asia, improvements in food endurance and reduction of porverty has been a result of government efforts to link market economic growth to interventions that improve food endurance at both household and national levels. This strategic connection is not an accident, it is meant to solve more than one problem at the same time and use time as efficient as possible. In macro point of view, by using this link to food endurance, it allows a country to capture the economic growth. Macro food policy has three components that reinforce the country’s food endurance: rapid growth in the macro economy, poverty reduction, and stability of the food system. Agriculture and a dynamic rural economy are the key to integrating all three components and are the key to solve the problems that Indonesia are facing.
To overcome the weaknesses, all levels of society must participate to improve the food endurance in Indonesia; by rising the amount of production, a farmer can reduce the amount of foods imported to this country and change this country into a self-sufficiency country, and farmers can also change this country into an export country with the supply above the foods needed to reach food endurance and self-sufficiency in foods are that obtained from the local farmers. By decreasing or demolishing the amount of corruption in Indonesia, Indonesia can improve their economic growth rapidly and solve the food endurance problems. Technology is one of the most important piece of puzzle to up-scale the production and reach food endurance program, by improving the technology all aspects that correspods with food endurance will decreace the amount of errors made.
Not only the society that has to participate, but government also has to take part because government have the rights to create policies to overcome the weaknesses of food endurance in Indonesia; The goventment must limit the amount of foods imported to this country, the amount of foods imported should correspods with the amount of foods needed to reach the food endurance program in Indonesia.
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Name : Faris Rachmadias S
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