On Friday, October 10, 2025, two APPERTANI experts, Prof. Achmad Suryana and Assoc. Prof. Haryono, served as resource persons at a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on the theme “Accelerating Agricultural Modernization to Support Food Self-Sufficiency” organized by the Agency for Agricultural Assembly and Modernization (BRMP) at the Sahira Hotel, Bogor. This FGD was attended by various parties, including BRIN, BRMP, APPERTANI, IRRI, universities, and others. […]
Closed Discussion Prospects for Indonesia-US Digital Technology Cooperation in Agriculture Jakarta, September 12th 2025 According to the plans of the Directorate General of American and European Affairs, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will hold the 4th Indonesia-U.S. Bilateral Digital Technology Dialogue in Chicago, USA, in November 2025. The meeting aims to support the Indonesian government’s Asta Cita program related to food security through exploration […]
The Economics of Rural Transformation and Public Policy Strategies and Methods for Successful Rural Transformation 5-8 May 2025 Bali, Indonesia Rural transformation is crucial for achieving overall economic growth, reducing poverty and bridging the gap between urban and rural areas. Worldwide, approximately 3.4 billion people reside in rural areas, with 90% of them living in developing countries. A significant portion of this population faces poverty. […]
The Need for Innovation in Increasing Agricultural Production Economic resilience needs to be strengthened as one of the seven agendas of the RPJMN-2020-2024. Innovation and investment as the main capital for economic resilience need to be increased in use to encourage sustainable economic growth, to provide welfare to the wider community in a fair and equitable manner. The contribution of economic growth in the agricultural […]
Environmentally Friendly Pest and Disease Management in Food Crops Supports Sustainable Agricultural Systems The Green Revolution succeeded in increasing the production of national staple food crops until it achieved self-sufficiency for rice for the first time in 1984. The negative impact that has been felt so far is the increase in pests and diseases because of irrational use of pesticides and the negative impact of […]
Increasing the Productivity of Food Crops Domestic rice production in the 2018-2023 period decreased by -1.91%, while domestic demand continues to increase in tandem with the increase in the number of populations, relatively high consumption amid the negative impact of climate change. The decline in production is due to the reduction of harvest acreage and the decrease in productivity. Dr. Suwandi, Director General of Food […]
APPERTANI has successfully held FGD and Annual Gathering in 2023/2024 with the theme: “REALIZING SUSTAINABLE RICE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND WORLD FOOD GRANARY 2045, WITH THE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AS WELL AS APPERTANI’S ACTIVE ROLE”. The theme was taken to play an active role in facing the challenges and dynamics of national agricultural development towards a Golden Indonesia 2045. APPERTANI held an FGD in […]
Transfer of Agricultural Technology to Increase Food Crop Production The lessons learned from the success of increasing food crop production, especially rice in Indonesia from an importing country before the Green Revolution to a rice self-sufficient country for the first time in 1984, can be achieved mainly because of technology transfer through the synergy of researchers-extension workers and farmers. Over time, the issuance of the […]
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 […]
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