Problematika Pengembangan Padi Organik di Sawangan Magelang serta Peluang Sertifikasi Internasional

Organic farming has been remarkably evolving in many areas of Indonesia for responding environmental issues and producing healthy foods. Organic rice is a type of organic farming product of a system which has been widely practiced including in Sawangan Village Magelang District as one of pioneering area on organic rice development in Central Java Province. This study is directed to analyze supporting factors, various problems faced on the development of organic rice and opportunity for getting international organic certification. A study has been done through household interview (30 farmers), indepth interview with key informants and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) at agricultural office of Magelang District. Data analysis used in this study are statistical descriptive and categorical qualitative. Results of the study show that: (1) performance of organic rice gradually getting better and productivity level has been getiing closer to conventional high external input rice farming, (2) supporting factorson improvement of organic rice include healthy rice production initiated through integrated pest management,transformative group leadership, supports from related stakeholders, high economic incentive, improvement of market networking, product certification, ICT application and favourable natural resource endowment, (3) Problems faced on the development of organic rice include variety of product quality among farmers, price variety and fluctuation, difficulty in organic seed access, mixing area of organic and anorganic rice farming, (4) Strategies for improving opportunity to get international organic sertification include innovation on product diversification, application of fresh product certification, modernization of machine for rice processing

PARTISIPASI ANGGOTA KELOMPOK WANITA TANI DALAM PENGOLAHAN PANGAN LOKAL SUMBER KARBOHIDRAT NON BERAS DI KABUPATEN BANTUL

This study aims to determine and analyze the kind of local food preocessing and the effort which was done, participation level of the women farmers group members, the factors which influenced participation level, and to know the women farmer group members�s marketing system besides rice sources of carbohydrate local food processing in Bantul District. This study used descriptive analytic method. The sub district, village, and the women farmer group members�s sample was taken by purposive method. From each women farmer group members was taken 15 sample by simple random sampling so there were 60 sample intotal. The data was analyzed with proportion test, multiple linear regresion and qualitative method. The result of this study shown that most of woman farmers in Bantul District had high level of participation besides rice sources of carbohydrate local food processing. The age and activity of women farmers positively influenced to its participation. Processing food which was produced by women farmer had been very varied with the garut as its main comodity which was procceed as emping and flour. The marketing system of local food frocessing result was done by women farmers group and besides to the consumers with different level price in each marketing level