NAGEKEO: ANTARA KENYATAAN DAN HARAPAN MENUJU PERTANIAN YANG BERKELANJUTAN

Abstract

Agricultural development in Nagekeo is an expectation of all the people. For this reason the
government must work together with the people to design an appropriate plan on agricultural
development based on principle: indignity, modernity, and sustainablelity for achieving
wealthy people. Some ideas that may be considered like: (1) biophysics aspect (maintenance
the soil quality, to improve the land productivity and plant productivity); (2) Irrigation
system; (3) Exploitation all the soil-water resource; (4) Management dry land with three
strata, agroforestry, and wetland (rice, Azolla, Tiktok, and Fish); (5) To increase networking
system; (6) To apply appropriate technology; (7) To develop infrastructure wisely; (8) To
manage all the information’s based on the need; (9) To empower the economic of the farmers
through cooperation unit.