ORIENTASI PENELITIAN PERTANIAN: MEMENUHI KEBUTUHAN PANGAN DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

Abstract

Since long ago Indonesia to face the food problem, even in the future will be a more
serious problem if agriculture sector as food producer not were work on seriously. Since
decrease emphasize toward agriculture sector, in floods of import rice enter the domestic
market so that to decrease farmer’s desire planting the rice, rely on sources of food on rice
only, and food diversification still limit of slogan or rhetoric entirely, has caused the national
food security system more and more become weak.
It’s appeared trade-off between the goal of food security and the income growth of
farmers, so in the framework of meet the national food can be met in a policy strategy of selfsufficiency
on trend. Its mean, to export when the national rice production surplus and to
import when national rice production deficit, cause the absolute self-sufficiency cannot
defended.
To increase the household and national food security that faced on reduction the
depending on import food and depending on one kind source of food namely rice, so food
diversification must be back encouraged that followed by research and development, action
program, and it’s to be as a national movement.
Research of agriculture to meet the need of national food in globalization era, mainly
food of non-rice carbohydrate in order to agribusiness orientation. Its mean, the research on
every subsystem of non-rice food agribusiness system, to aim increase the food production,
producer income, and value added of food product mentioned, so that more and more
competitive in domestic and national market.