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INDONESIA TO FACE DECLINE IN FOOD PRODUCTION BY 2050
Bandar Lampung, May 19 (ANTARA) - Indonesia will face a serious problem in agriculture namely a 27.1 percent decline in strategic food production by 2050 as the result of the climate change.
"The result of a study we have conducted shows that climate change is only one of so many problems confronting the sector of agriculture and food supplies following the narrowing of rice fields and declining agricultural production," Prof Dr Bustanil Arifin, professor of the Agriculture Faculty of the Lampung University, said here on Tuesday.
He made the statement in a seminar themed "Biotechnigue for Agricultural Development", the result of a cooperation between the Lampung University and the Indonesian Agricultural Biotechnique Association.
A number of problems and challenges to be faced in Agriculture and the food economy in Indonesia, he added, was a change in climate, global economic crisis and a change in the structure of food crops.
"Not to mention internal factors we are facing agricultural politics without any commitment, an example of which can be seen from World Bank data on revised budget of our agricultural infrastructure which is at present at the lowest rate in Asia," he said.
Indonesia, according to him, needed to respond to a serious proposal on the use of modern biotechnique as a policy to anticipate or minimize issues on agriculture in the future.
"Hence, it is time to adopt seriously the result of a survey conducted by the campus," he said, adding that such serious effort could be seen in some steps that had been taken.
"The government only needs to take a decision on whether biotechnique serve as a solution to Indonesian agricultural problem in the future. Otherwise, another solution should be sought," he said.
The first step to do is by reseach of new biotechnological findings, meaning that there is a need to make a direct survey at the level of farmers in order to know whether the results of transgenic seeds could be used under a natural conditions in an artificial condition at the research institute," he said.
After that, the government only needed to take another important step, namely studying psychological preparation of Indonesian farmers on biotechnologcial basis, if compared to an old pattern such as organic agriculture.
"Strategy and communication to the farmers is very important starting from the definition of maximum transgenic components up to guarantee on security of engineered products' utility or biotechnology in general," he said.
"The result of a study we have conducted shows that climate change is only one of so many problems confronting the sector of agriculture and food supplies following the narrowing of rice fields and declining agricultural production," Prof Dr Bustanil Arifin, professor of the Agriculture Faculty of the Lampung University, said here on Tuesday.
He made the statement in a seminar themed "Biotechnigue for Agricultural Development", the result of a cooperation between the Lampung University and the Indonesian Agricultural Biotechnique Association.
A number of problems and challenges to be faced in Agriculture and the food economy in Indonesia, he added, was a change in climate, global economic crisis and a change in the structure of food crops.
"Not to mention internal factors we are facing agricultural politics without any commitment, an example of which can be seen from World Bank data on revised budget of our agricultural infrastructure which is at present at the lowest rate in Asia," he said.
Indonesia, according to him, needed to respond to a serious proposal on the use of modern biotechnique as a policy to anticipate or minimize issues on agriculture in the future.
"Hence, it is time to adopt seriously the result of a survey conducted by the campus," he said, adding that such serious effort could be seen in some steps that had been taken.
"The government only needs to take a decision on whether biotechnique serve as a solution to Indonesian agricultural problem in the future. Otherwise, another solution should be sought," he said.
The first step to do is by reseach of new biotechnological findings, meaning that there is a need to make a direct survey at the level of farmers in order to know whether the results of transgenic seeds could be used under a natural conditions in an artificial condition at the research institute," he said.
After that, the government only needed to take another important step, namely studying psychological preparation of Indonesian farmers on biotechnologcial basis, if compared to an old pattern such as organic agriculture.
"Strategy and communication to the farmers is very important starting from the definition of maximum transgenic components up to guarantee on security of engineered products' utility or biotechnology in general," he said.
