Decrease quality of Agricultural Production in Indonesia

The condition of agriculture in Indonesia is very different if compared with other countries. This can be seen from the decrease quality of agricultural impact on agricultural production. The factors that cause these problems include the lack of good quality seeds, bad quality of farmers and increase agricultural pests. Quality seeds are very influential in the production of good results. As recommended by the government and also recommended the cultivation of good technology, it is advisable to use seeds that come from certified seed as certified seed guarantees the authenticity or purity of the varieties, the growing power of good, and lifetime (expired product) is known with certainty to be more reliable . However, in reality farmers still use seed with low quality. For example, farmers still use seed potatoes granola G4 on imports into Indonesia. The seeds were then planted and sorted to obtain a new seed with low quality compared to the previous quality. The result, farmers producing potatoes of poor quality.

The quality or the ability of farmers also affects the quality of agricultural production, farmers must have the ability to be able to regulate the planting strategy or the other, because sometimes farmers have their own expertise in dealing with the dynamics of nature that are not thought out in advance the impact. For example, a farmer growing rice, of course in his mind thought, what if suddenly appeared rats and aphis attack, so the farmer took the initiative to spray pesticides to exceed the dose is determined. This is to reduce the risk of pest attacks, but unfortunately did not pay attention to environmental aspects and impacts of contamination or poisoning by pesticides.

A further factor affecting the quality of agricultural is increase agriculture pets. Increased agricultural pests due to climate change. In the last three years been some changes in pest and disease problems in Indonesia, related to the increase and decrease pest / disease. In this condition becomes more and more pest and disease damage, or the extent of the damage becomes greater. Diseases that have increased dramatically in the last three years is a disease of the rice crackle caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, Gemini viruses in peppers and tomatoes, as well as pest Thrips on pepper. One of the climatic factors that influence the pest is a flood. Some pests / pathogens transmitted stream. Examples of gold snail pest of rice, in rice fields Bojonegoro district, East Java in 2008.

Of the underlying factors that have been described above we can know that the condition of agriculture in Indonesia is very different than any other country. But all the above problems can we solve by finding the best solutions, and most important solution is the increase of knowledge, understanding and the ability of farmers to follow best training and attention from the government so as to improve the quality of agricultural production.