indonesian farmer's story
the farmer failed
QOmah, wife of rice farmers in Cibarusah Village, Bekasi Regency, West Java can only resign. She and her husband had to accept the reality of failing to harvest rice twice due to drought since six months ago.
There is no water flowing from the times, even the wells made by the Regional Government of Bekasi Regency and PDAM are not enough to irrigate hundreds of hectares of rice fields in Cibarusah Village. The water sourced from the well was also not enough for the daily needs of 1,700 residents of Cibarusah.
Omah said, usually in one year Cibarusah Village managed to produce 4,000 quintals of rice seeds twice. However, this year there was absolutely no rice harvest produced from the village."The Story of Cibarusah Farmers who 2 Times Failed to Harvest Due to Drought". His opinion from nyawah (harvest rice fields) if the rainy season on to rice nanem rice fields. A year twice the harvest if there is water, if not use the water machine from time to the rice field. But if now it has twice failed to harvest because it is dry there is no rain at all" said Omah, in Cibarusah Village, Bekasi Regency, Wednesday (30/10/2019).
From Sulbal Majene, Sulbar (ANTARA Sulbar) - Rice farmers in Sendana District, Majene Regency, West Sulawesi Province, failed to harvest after tens of hectares of their rice fields were hit by severe drought due to drought. Saihu, one of the farmers, in Majene on Wednesday, said the rice fields in Majene were drought for the past month due to a long dry season in recent months. He said, because of the drought the farmers' rice fields are not irrigated because the water source of the river is also experiencing drought as well. "Paddy plants become damaged by fragmentation, so they cannot be harvested. The land where the farmers' rice developed, cracked due to the absence of water, so the farmers are desperate, because of crop failure," he said. According to him, the drought conditions due to the dry season were not able to be anticipated by farmers, especially most farmers rely on rain because their rice fields are rain-fed rice fields. While farmers who use simple irrigation facilities are also unable to irrigate because the river dries up. "Every year when the drought arrives, the farmers' fields cannot be expected because they are also dry, and cannot produce farmers only losses because they incur high production costs" he said. He claimed that farmers suffered losses of millions of rupiah because in addition to having spent a lot of costs to develop the pad such as buying seeds and fertilizers also because of threatened crop failure. Sudirman said other farmers could only resign because of crop failure so that the government was asked to help farmers so that the problem of crop failure could be overcome. He hopes the government can reimburse the cost of producing farmers in developing their food so that in the next planting period farmers do not have capital difficulties.
COFFEE FARMER
Do not blame the coffee farmers if one day the taste of coffee becomes less delicious. Or even the price of coffee soared due to its very limited amount such as petroleum.
Coffee farming is now one of the sectors directly affected by climate change due to global warming. The rain that constantly flushes makes the coffee flowers fall out and do not produce fruit. This incident was experienced by one of the coffee farmers, Farida Dwi.
The initiator of Lady Farmer Coffee Roastery from the community in Banjarnegara, Central Java, it has been four years ago that this man did not experience the harvest of arabica coffee because the season is no longer friendly.
Extreme rain often flushes Banjarnegara. And this is not good for coffee plantations.
Farida was initially foreign to the issue of climate change. Moreover, he managed coffee farming land for generations. But lately, it seems that climate change is real. The coffee harvest continues according to each year.
“Initially we did not believe in the climate crisis. Little harvest we thought due to lack of care,” said Farida, at “Media Briefing and Climate Crisis Discussion at Your Dining Table” – part of Chasing The Shadow held by Greenpeace in Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Saturday (22/10/2022).
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COFFEE FARMERS ARE FAILING TO HARVEST BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Coffee Farmers Are Failing to Harvest Due to Climate Change
The climate crisis due to global warming is increasingly real. Not just coffee farmers, food farmers in general are now in serious threat of crop failure.
Greenpeace Indonesia's Chasing The Shadow photo exhibition at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Saturday (22/10/2022). This exhibition results from bicycle trips to locations affected by global warming, starting from Marunda-Jakarta, Muara Gembong-Bekasi, and ending in Bandung. (Photo Repro: Iman Herdiana/BandungBerakmakir.id)
Author Iman Herdiana October 24, 2022
BandungBermakkir.id - Do not blame coffee farmers if one day the taste of coffee becomes less tasty. Or even the price of coffee soared due to its very limited amount such as petroleum.
Coffee farming is now one of the sectors directly affected by climate change due to global warming. The rain that constantly flushes makes the coffee flowers fall out and do not produce fruit. This incident was experienced by one of the coffee farmers, Farida Dwi.
The initiator of Lady Farmer Coffee Roastery from the community in Banjarnegara, Central Java, it has been four years ago that this man did not experience the harvest of arabica coffee because the season is no longer friendly.
Extreme rain often flushes Banjarnegara. And this is not good for coffee plantations.
Farida was initially foreign to the issue of climate change. Moreover, he managed coffee farming land for generations. But lately, it seems that climate change is real. The coffee harvest continues according to each year.
“Initially we did not believe in the climate crisis. Little harvest we thought due to lack of care,” said Farida, at “Media Briefing and Climate Crisis Discussion at Your Dining Table” – part of Chasing The Shadow held by Greenpeace in Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Saturday (22/10/2022).
Farida feels her coffee harvest has begun to decline since 2019. Care and treatment are continued. By 2020, coffee yields will decline. He fertilized 4 times, but the harvest of 2021 and 2022 again plunged.
The cause is none other because the rainfall in Banjarnegara every year is getting higher. Greenpeace activists later told Farida the climate crisis was having a devastating impact on coffee farming.
“Climate crisis is real. The decline in production in 2021 is declining. And this year if the crop failure is indeed a crop failure. The price of coffee is again expensive now because the stock is not available,” said Farida.
According to Farida, the constant rain made the crop shrink by 60 percent. The quality of coffee is also decreasing.
Before 2019, Farida used to get coffee from harvest raya between 20 tons to 25 tons. This year can harvest 1 ton only Alhamdulillah, it was after sorted the results are only 50 percent of decent coffee fruit. The rest, another 50 percent, is damaged or unfit.
“Panen raya usually June July. Now there is absolutely no harvest,” complained Farida.
Climate Crisis, Food Crisis
Coffee, which has become an icon for the association of urban youth, has experienced the direct impact of the climate crisis. The Stockholm Environment Institute report notes that arabica coffee has the potential to decline in productivity by 45 percent due to warming temperatures.
In addition to coffee, food in general has also been affected by the climate crisis. The BMKG has warned that the increasing number of hydrometeorological disasters aggravated by the climate crisis, such as floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, landslides, tropical cyclones, and other extreme events, have been reported, will increasingly threaten food security in various parts of Indonesia.
Various extreme weather phenomena will disrupt agricultural and fishery activities, even threatening the productivity of crops and fishing.
According to the Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, the productivity of Ciherang rice plants – one of the majority rice types grown in Indonesia – will decrease by 30 percent in the next 20 years compared to the harvest of 1998-2002.
The impact of the climate crisis has been widely found in Indonesia, as photographed by a team of cyclists titled Chasing The Shadow represented by cyclist Rafii Fuji Berkah aka Acil.
By bicycle, Acil started the journey in Marunda, North Jakarta, one of the areas that have coal PLTU. Coal is one of the dirtiest sources of energy that pollutes the environment, including sending carbon into space and damaging the ozone layer resulting in global warming.
First entering the Marunda area, Acil immediately inhaled the air that stifled the chest due to the smell of coal. Many people suffer from diseases.
To filter the air so as not to enter the house directly, there are residents who took the initiative to install a net. This net is now plastered with coal black dust.
“The dust in the house's net is thick. Kebayang ga anyway. That's what happened in our area,” story Acil.
Acil also found children suffering from eye disease. The child used to rub his itchy eyes due to coal pollution until his eyes were damaged.
From Marunda, Acil continued his cycling journey to Muara Gembong, Bekasi. Here the sea water has gone up to the mainland.
Residents of Muara Gembong also have difficulty getting clean water. To get clean water, they have to buy it. Though their ancestors used to get clean water free and easy.
“I so know why Bekasi is called another planet,” he said.
Bekasi is close to Jakarta. The climate crisis has been going on since 2008. Many coastal areas and mangrove forests are undergoing concreteization. There is no vegetation on the beach except for the walls.
“At the end of the day too selfish development results in quick land down. Government present or not?” said.
Muara Gembong used to be known as a fishing village with a lucrative income. This area was once called the dollar village because of its abundant sea products.
But today, fishermen have trouble getting fish. The sea tides more often and is no longer friendly to fishermen.
University of Padjadjaran Anthropology Lecturer, Hardian Eko Nurseto, had conducted research at Muara Gembong in 2017. At that time, sea levels began to rise inland. Many public facilities are submerged in sea water ranging from mosques to schools.
In his research, Hardian Eko Nurseto interviewed three professions that live in Muara Gembong, namely fishermen, crab collectors, and dodol traders. Fishermen and crab collectors are clearly affected by this rising sea water. They continue to lose because the catch continues to shrink.
So do dodol traders who live from the results of marine vegetation. The dodol seller made dodol from bidara fruit. Now the bidara tree in Bekasi much cut down and destroyed.
The researcher, who is familiarly called Seto, stressed that the climate crisis is affecting human culture. Many cultural rituals use food as ritual material. If there was no food, he wondered if the ritual would continue?
The results of the Chasing The Shadow cycling trip were then exhibited in a photo exhibition at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, last weekend. Photos of flooding, rising sea water soaking mosques and primary schools, coal PLTU, plastic waste, into some findings Acil and his team to evoke the importance of suppressing global warming, he said, one of them is by stopping the operation of coal PLTU.
Greenpeace Indonesia also encourages Indonesia to take real and ambitious climate action, especially in the energy sector, to reduce the impact of the climate crisis. A scientific panel of climate change scientists from around the world (IPCC) confirmed that at least the world should close 80 percent of coal PLTUs by 2030, and leave coal altogether by 2040, if you don't want to be caught up in the climate crisis.
Countries around the world must immediately abandon fossil fuels and make energy transitions to curb the pace of climate change. Unfortunately, at a time when global trends are making a massive energy transition, Indonesia still cannot be separated from dependence on coal.
The energy transition is also still half-hearted by continuing to build 13.8 GW of new coal PLTU, most of which will be built on Java Island, including West Java.
On the other hand, the presence of coal PLTU also contributes high air pollution and many other environmental damage, especially for coastal ecosystems. The dominance of coal shows that power and business relations have intertwined, and resulted in political policies that only benefit a group of elites.
Adila Isfandiari, Greenpeace Indonesia Climate and Energy campaigner, said the climate crisis is not a projection of the future because it is happening now and we have all felt the impact, he said, it has even threatened some of our food.
“No region in the world can escape the threat of climate crisis, including Indonesia. Our lifestyle choices, the type of energy we use, and the economic system have all been linked to environmental degradation and global warming. Individual action is important to do. However, that is not enough to address the current climate crisis situation. Large-scale changes are needed that must be made by the government through the policies made,” said Adila.
Indonesia has the potential for clean and renewable energy such as solar, wind, and water are abundant and the cost is increasingly competing with fossil energy.
“Governments must urgently undertake real and serious climate action. There is no reason for the Indonesian government not to accelerate a just energy transition as a solution to get out of the climate crisis,”.
