Sustainability status for the remaining rice fields in the Air Manjuto irrigation area, Bengkulu, Indonesia

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10.2991/978-94-6463-334-4_6How to use a DOI?

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— Air Manjuto irrigation area; remaining rice fields; sustainability status

Abstract

Aim of this research was to determine sustainability indices based on ecological, economical, socio-cultural, technological and institutional dimensions, and their leverage analysis for the remaining rice fields in Air Manjuto irrigation area, Mukomuko District, Bengkulu Province. The research was conducted from October to December, 2021 at for Sub- districts involving Lubuk Pinang, Air Manjuto, XIV Koto, and V Koto Sub-districts. A purposive sampling method was used to find 60 key informants having quite relation with rice cultivation and sustainable management in this area. Collected data and information examined with a scalable and normative rapid appraisal multidimensional scaling (MDS) for the sustainability of rice cultivation involving broad attributes of ecological, economical, socio-cultural, technological and institutional dimensions based on the key informant perspectives. Accuracy of MDS analysis was analyzed with goodness of fit and Monte Carlo analysis, while sensitive attributes was fitted with root mean square leverage analysis. The dimension threated the sustainability status was various attributes of economic dimension with a value 49.45 and socio- cultural perceptions with a value 45.46. It is important to strengthen the sustainability of rice cultivation on the remaining rice fields in the Air Manjuto irrigation area through more subsidized agricultural inputs and agricultural community development. The agricultural inputs especially fertilizers significantly required for increasing the rice productivity of the marginal peat and peaty mineral rice fields. Furthermore, agricultural community development through adoptions of new technologies for rice cultivation were more attractive and responsive for smallholders through providing agricultural mechanizations to overcome household labor limited.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dodi Hardiansyah
AU  - Satria Putra Utama
AU  - Elsa Lolita Putri
AU  - Muhammad Faiz Barchia
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/24
TI  - Sustainability status for the remaining rice fields in the Air Manjuto irrigation area, Bengkulu, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Developments 2022 Environment and Sustainable Development (IICESSD-ESD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 28
EP  - 33
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-334-4_6
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-334-4_6
ID  - Hardiansyah2024
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