"This happens everywhere, the younger generation is getting lost and diminished that want to work in the agricultural sector. This is a challenge to our farm to the next, "says Nurhady Sirimorok, a researcher from Ininnawa, in a discussion in Makassar, South Sulawesi, end of may 2015.
According to him, the construction of the village will be very dependent on the productive power, so when there are no more young people who want to work the land, then it is definitely food needs will be supplied from outside.
With more and more people are leaving the village then their food needs to be imported from outside. Especially if the land was converted into plantations for export purposes, such as Palm and others. The village that was once a food exporter will change to the importer.
"The low profit of the farmer, the lack of land, and the high price of agricultural land being the main obstacle the younger generation of the village have imagined their future together with hoes and land," said Nurhady, who is also a researcher at Insist.
He exemplifies what is happening in the village of Maleali, a cocoa-producing village in the Regency Parigi ranga Reddy, Central Sulawesi. In the village, the majority of agricultural land is already transformed into a land of cocoa, including yard House that once was to plant vegetables.
"They are ultimately getting cornered by commodities cocoa, so the entire food needs must then be imported from outside," he said.
Cocoa farming trend started in 1990 's, in addition to giving new hope for prosperity is also considered a threat to the sustainability of farming food.
"The problem is that cocoa has a life cycle. Cocoa was like a machine, when it was already past the age of 10-15 years then his productivity will soften and cannot be repaired anymore, "continued Nurhady.
When farmland is increasingly damaged then it will be abandoned for not promising again. They eventually became farm laborers in his old age.
"They go into labor or paring labor planting coconut but they are not young anymore. Once they opened the land for food, plant and get the result. Now they're broke, "he said.
In the village of Sandalwood Green, district of East Luwu Regency Wotu, even a number of farmers leaving the land to his farm Homesteader was transformed into a factory making bricks, because prospective valued more.
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