COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING : INTRODUCTION OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM (IFS) TO THE RURAL COMMUNITY
ABSTRAK: Development Center
for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) is a research institute that has a role to
develop and implement Appropriate Technology (AT) in accordance with the needs
of rural communities in Indonesia. In practice, the application of AT can not
be carried out in the scheme of top-down intervention, but rather requires a
participatory community development methods. Rural livelihoods, especially in
the peasant community, have complex issues, ranging from land tenure, the means
of production, waste pollution and management, production capacity, degradation
of land, water and irrigation, information of technology, and marketing
constraints of agricultural products. Therefore, it is necessary to create
community development planning to determine the priority of the AT that is required.
This paper will describe the steps of community development planning to
introduce the Integrated Farming System (IFS) to the rural community. The
setting and case study is the business development group of cattle and rice
farmers in Sukatani Village, Subang, West Java, which is expected to be a
pioneer of IFS within communities.
Keywords: community planning,
appropriate technology, integrated farming system, Subang, Indonesia
Penulis: Yanu Endar Prasetyo,
M Ali Mauludin
Kode Jurnal: jppeternakandd160430
