9 Sep 2009 Simeulue Tengah, Simeulue, Indonesia, Asia
Reforestation Program in Sibande Using Social Forestry Approach, Pakpak Bharat, North Sumatra, Indonesia
The project has the following two aims:
1. Farmers know and able to implementing new model of paddy’s planting in order to increase their harvest of paddy.
2. Farmers know and able to use organic approach in their paddy’s planting process.
In the agriculture’s conservation point of view, the modules that will conducted make it possible to purposed farmers in order to planting easier, cheaper and using the minimum of chemical input. We will teach them to carrying the sustainable of fertile soils and decreasing of chemical residue also. Using an organic material as equipment for increasing the rice harvesting will help the farmers to reducing unnecessary cost for buying chemical fertilizers and pesticides, when their want to do next paddy’s cycles time, there are still enough resources of natural fertilizers and pesticide around the village, they just have to know how to modify that sources into variety of fertilizers or pesticides. Understanding about agro-ecosystem will teach them that any insect that being in field rice area are created to be use full, where there are plants, that will inviting other creatures to find their food, even to be eating by some others insects and diseases will appear if the environments being disturbance. Farmers Field School generate 3 categories of former, they are researcher, watcher and facilitator, it means this projects will give really challenge to conveying what have they learned from 4,5 months of paddy’s Field School in local language.
Project will implemented for 10 months, in 2 paddy’s cycles that using 100 days of seed’s ages and represent of 2 season of climate change. These two season times are very important to be learned because there are different problems for farmers in Simeulue in each season This project will be implemented in 4 villages (Dihit, Lauke, Lambaya and Suak Baro) which represent 24 villages in Simeulue Tengah sub-District. Each village will have 10 rice fields as sample plots and will planted with SRI or Legowo models. Planting process will be act by 40 audiences (10 for each village) and they will be guides to take care plants growth until harvest phase for each 1-2 days/week, starting from October 2009 to July 2010.