Strategies to Increase Rice Productivity Dr. Suwandi, Director General of Food Crops in his keynote speech outlined the steps being taken to increase rice production through extensification and intensification. Extensification is carried out by expanding the planting area and increasing the planting index. Intensification is carried out by increasing the yield potential of new high-yielding varieties of rice and improving crop cultivation management. Propaktani episode […]
Strategies for Farmers to Increase Productivity and Food Production The role of farmers is very important in efforts to increase food production, because there is still a yield gap between the yield obtained by farmers and the yield of research or demonstration plots. In addition, there are still yield gaps between locations and between growing seasons and also there are still vacant/sleeping lands that have […]
Food Crops and Horticultural Commodities Down Streaming Propaktani episode 1055 organized by APPERTANI is a continuation of the topic of agricultural downstream episode 1006. This episode focuses more on the downstream of local food from food crops and horticultural commodities from potential industrial trees to be developed to optimize added value. Dr. Suwandi, Director General of Food Crops encourages people to consume local food, love […]
Agricultural Infrastructure Increasing Production Early experience of the Green Revolution adoption that the development of agricultural infrastructure strongly supports the introduction of new technologies to increase crop production, especially rice. Indonesia’s current agricultural infrastructure is at the same level as the Philippines, very lagging when compared to the People’s Republic of China. In Webinar Episode 986, APPERTANI had the opportunity to organize a webinar with […]
One Day Symposium on World population reach eight billion and Indonesia population at 280 million in 2023. It requires sufficient food to meet the demand, especially with a growing middle-income society. Environmental concern continues to be a major issue in many millennial societies and lower carbon footprints have become targets for many countries. Farmers as the main drivers of food production in Indonesia are an […]
On Thursday 12 January 2023 the Head of the Research Team in collaboration between APPERTANI and Syngenta International for Sustainable Agriculture Prof. Dr. Tahlim Sudaryanto accompanied with Prof. Irsal Las (Chair of APPERTANI), Prof. Achmad Suryana (Research Team Member, APPERTANI) and Dr. Wahida (Research Team Member, APPERTANI/ ICASEPS) was accepted by Dr. Musdhalifah Machmud, Deputy Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs. […]
On Friday 20 January 2023 at 09.15-10.30 AM the APPERTANI Team led by Prof. Dr. Irsal Las and accompanied by Prof. Dr. Tahlim Sudaryanto, Prof. Dr. Sjamsul Bahri, and Dr. Helena J. Purba was welcomed by the Head of BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency), Dr. Laksana Tri Handoko at BRIN head office Jl. MH. Thamrin Jakarta. The purpose of the meeting was to present […]
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