Mekanisasi Pertanian Dalam Perspektif Pengembangan Bahan Bakar Nabati Di Indonesia

Abstract

Perspective Agriculture Mechanization in Relation to Bio fuel Development in IndonesiaThe price and demand of energy and food has been increase faster. Potential shortage of fossil fuel became a serious problem in developing agriculture mechanization. Therefore, bio fuel is an alternative way to solve the problem. Bio energy can be produced in solid, gas or liquid form. However, the liquid form is the most easy to be used. Indonesia has around 22.4 million ha of land to grow up bio fuel crops. 7.1 million ha for seasonal crops and 15.3 million ha for annual crops. Potential of energy of biomass from agriculture is around 360.99 million GJ. Biomass can be converted to be liquid bio fuel. This namely technology for second generation bio fuel or biomass to liquid process. Biomass can also be bended to be biogas by using anaerob digestation reactor. Biogas can be used to operate drier machine in villages. To overcome fossil fuel scarcity problem in the future, agriculture mechanization development should be consider bio fuel as an alternative energy source. Research of agriculture mechanization, then should be directed to the machines that can be operated using bio fuel and other biomas energy