Agri-Tech and Agribusiness Integration to Support Agricultural Ecosystem in Indonesia

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10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_78How to use a DOI?

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Digitalization agriculture; Farmers; from land to table; Smart agriculture

Abstract

Indonesia’s farmers face many challenges, from low productivity, pest attack, uncertainly commodities price, unscrupulous off-takers to difficulties in getting loans. One of the biggest challenges right now, however, is climate change. Speaking of weather conditions, level of weather predictions covers too wide area (per district or subdistrict). Meanwhile, micro-climate in village or land area is specific, sometimes every 2 or 3 km has different rainfall condition. Therefore, localized technology assuring precise weather prediction by installing localized weather station is needed. From technical innovativeness perspective, not only provide the current and raw data of what is happening on the farm to the farmers but notifications and recommendations precisely on what to do is more important because the conditions of Indonesian farmers that mostly are having low literacy capability, to give them precise and simple information is very beneficial for them. Access to the market is not the only problem that farmers have to face in terms of economic challenge. Farmers find it difficult to apply loan in the bank, thus they have to borrow the money from middlemen, which has the contract farming that farmer have to sell their product in a low price to them. So, not only technology but also ensure that farmers have access to the market by building agricultural ecosystem project. Agricultural Ecosystem project is a collaborating project among government, bank, insurance, agriculture inputs supplier, off-taker and also agri-tech start-up. By using technology and included in the agricultural ecosystem project, farmers can improve their productivity also certainty to market their products with fair price to a certain off-taker. Farmers also can be assured that if their production is damaged by natural disaster, they can claim to agriculture insurance provider. They also don't have to worry about the agriculture input supply because they can obtain high quality products from the trusted supplier that collaborating in agricultural ecosystem project. Lastly, farmers also can receive micro financing from bank with low interest. Then, to help farmers gain higher sale price through using traceability feature. It can help them export their products and obtain more funding for their business since product transparency is presented. In a nutshell, implementing this project can solve four main problems within small holder farmer community: improving yield and productivity, gaining wider access for the right financing, obtaining higher value of product and also access to the market.

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AU  - Bayu Dwi Apri Nugroho
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/28
TI  - Agri-Tech and Agribusiness Integration to Support Agricultural Ecosystem in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Agriculture and Tourism (ICOSEAT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 576
EP  - 581
SN  - 2468-5747
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