ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY SUSTAINABILITY OF RICE AGRICULTURE IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY KASEPUHAN CIPTAGELAR, SUKABUMI REGENCY

• Main Author: Marhamah Sadidah, Nayla
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/61273
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The green revolution program in the early 1960s introduced superior rice seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural tools, which changed the traditional farming system. Intensive use of external inputs or generally called high external input agriculture (HEIA) in line with the introduction of the green revolution can have bad effects on the environment and socioeconomics of farmers. Kasepuhan Ciptagelar is the one who refuses to apply the green revolution and still maintains ancestral agriculture. Currently, Kasepuhan Ciptagelar has about 43 types of pare rurukan and 168 types of cross-bred rice from pare rurukan. The local wisdom of rice farming in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar is in line with ancestral traditions or carrying out the teachings of tatali paranti karuhun, rice farming that is carried out is rice fields and huma fields. This study aims to evaluate the sustainability of the local wisdom-based rice farming system in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar and develop a sustainability strategy so that it is in line with the 2030 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) agenda. This research was conducted with a quantitative descriptive approach by collecting primary and secondary data. Primary data were taken directly from Kasepuhan Ciptagelar in the form of questionnaires, interviews, observations, and documentation using the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA) method. From the primary data documentation obtained, an analysis of the carrying capacity of agricultural land was carried out as supporting data. Secondary data is indirect data from the field obtained from related agencies namely Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salak (TNGHS), Common Room, Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara, Badan Pusat Statistika, and literature studies. SWOT analysis and QSPM (Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix) is used to develop a sustainability strategy. The results of the analysis show that the sustainability of rice farming in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar can be said to be sustainable, indicated by 54.5% of the 44 indicators reviewed as good, 41% limited and 4.5% unaccepted. Meanwhile, the carrying capacity of rice farming land is in the class II criteria (optimum carrying capacity of rice farming land) and the optimal population is higher than the actual population. The resulting strategies are: (a) utilizing regional advantages, advances in information technology and community potential to expand market networks for non-rice products and increase sustainable rice agricultural yields (long-term); (b) development of rice production based on the principles of good agriculture practice and adapted to customary law to obtain higher productivity while maintaining environmental conditions (medium-term); (c) harmonizing rice and non-rice farming, and providing other added value by utilizing advances in information technology, access to funding and community potential (short term).