UPAYA YANG DILAKUKAN PETANI PADI PASCA KEBAKARAN LAHAN TAHUN 2015 DI DESA RIDING KECAMATAN PANGKALAN LAMPAM KABUPATEN OGAN KOMERING ILIR SUMATERA SELATAN
Daftar Isi:
- Riding Village and its surroundings underwent a long-term drought which caused a forest fire and farmer’s land fire in 2015. The purposes of this study : (1) To identify the efforts of rice farmers in overcoming the negative impacts on land after the 2015 fires in Hamlet III of Riding Village. (2) To identify the variations in sources of income for rice farmers in Hamlet III of Riding Village. (3) To compare the income of rice farmers to the criteria of poverty. The method used in this study was the survey method. The method of determining the samples used in this study was the purposive sampling method. Respondents in this study were rice farmers in Hamlet III, Riding Village, Sub-District of Lampam, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra which had 8 farmer groups with a total membership of 210 farmers. Then 37 people were taken from the total population of farmers. Data processing was done with the help of the Microsoft Excel program. The result of this study : (1) It can be seen that there were four types of efforts made by post-fire farmers. The type of effort that mostly carried out by rice farmers in Hamlet III of Riding Village was the addition of input farming activities such as adding fertilizers, increasing eradication of pests and diseases, and suctioning water and making wells to meet the needs of rice plants. (2) The sources of income for post-fire of non-farming, namely, Daily Workers to the City, Workers of Oil Palm Plantations, Traders, Gelam Wood Seekers, and Fish Seekers. (3) Almost all farmers earned income above the welfare line, which was 401,220 IDR / capita / month, there were only 3 people or 8.11% of farmers who earned below 401,220 IDR/capita/month or had not exceeded welfare criteria. These three farmers did rice farming and non-farming work which were conducted as fish finders and looking for gelam wood